Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit. One day in 1896 he took an ax to the wall of the shed (the door was too small) and drove the contraption out into the world. That was the start. He believed in gasoline and the engine. Seven years later, aged 40, he organized the Ford Motor Co., with eleven stockholders...
...winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
...fact that we are appearing gratis is but one indication of the importance of the occasion," said manager Skinner. Ordinarily the band will not march at all unless provided with a motor-driven float to stand on; but community spirit has given new courage to our sagging arches...
...dark price picture, there was one bright spot last week. Chrysler Corp. announced price cuts ranging from $25 to $55 on all Plymouths. Hudson Motor Car Co. counteracted this somewhat by raising its prices from $25 to $69 a car. And U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, who has been under most pressure to reduce prices, went out of his way to deny that Big Steel had any intention of reducing prices now. Not till current bargaining with C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers is over, said he, could Big Steel think of any price changes. Chrysler, which is currently bargaining...
...Hoppi-copter" (see cut), which he has been developing in Seattle. It is a helicopter* stripped to essentials: little more than a seat, landing wheels and two horizontal rotors revolving in opposite directions. The power source is a 35 h.p. engine with two opposed cylinders like an outboard motor. According to Mr. Pentecost, "the required blade adjustments to render typical three dimensional helicopter flight have been coordinated into a single control handle placed conveniently in front of the operator...