Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also that Harold W. Hunter '48 and James S. Roberts '47 will represent Harvard in the annual Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, to be launched Monday, June 25, at Montclair, New Jersey. Tentative Baseball Schedule (Incomplete) Wed. July 18 Camp Edwards away Sat. July 21 Holy Cross Wed. July 25 Motor Torpedo Boat School away Sat. July 28 Quonset Aircraft away Wed. August 1 Camp Edwards Sat. August 4 Holy Cross away Sat. August 11 Motor Torpedo Boat School
...crowd gathered. Crippled Peter Back, the local Nazi leader, rode up on his motor bike. When the flyer reached the ground, Back shot him in the head, twice. Back was shouting "Shoot him! Beat him to death!" The flyer was still alive when blond, one-armed Peter Kohn, a railway worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman...
...composition is still secret, but it is known to be an organic chemical with a surface tension only half that of water. Its lower tension makes it adhere better to metal and rubber surfaces, thus displacing the water. In a spectacular test an automobile motor was sprayed by hose until the motor died. When PiB was brushed on, it insinuated itself between the water and the metal, thus in effect "dried" the electrical system and allowed the motor to be started. In other tests electric motors have been operated under water after being coated with PiB. A coating lasts...
Confusion by Hudson. At a stockholders' meeting of Hudson Motor Car Co., the story finally came out of how Detroit's body-building Fisher brothers, retired from General Motors, had shopped around for an automobile company. The deal not only came out; it came to grief...
...hand tools will have no changes to make except in the detailed specifications of their product; 77% of the output of tractor makers is still tractors; 65% of the output of textile mills is still of prewar type; even 36% of the output of the automobile industry is still "motor vehicles and parts...