Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
Standard Oil Co. of New York (Socony gasoline and motor oil)-$16,000,000, plus. Previous year: $32,776,502. Reason for difference: price slumps in crude oil and gasoline resulting from overproduction...
...hiking class, will take the participants over an area of about 100 miles, through country already traversed this year by members of the Appalachian Club. The entire distance, however, will not be made on foot, provision being made at certain stop-off places for short lifts by motor. Each hiker will carry his own food, but shelter will be provided...
...Motors. The Wright J5 is a 200-horsepower motor with nine cylinders arranged like the spokes of a wheel around the propeller shaft. The cylinders are cooled by the rushing air, but do not themselves revolve (as in other types of air-cooled motors). The significant qualities of the Wright J5 are lightness of weight, simplicity, durability, practical foolproof-ness. It drives almost any airplane at a contented speed of 100 m.p.h., can do 130 m.p.h., depending on the plane and flying conditions. Mr. Lawrance has recently perfected a 525-horsepower, nine-cylinder, air-cooled motor-big brother...
Gabriel Snubbers (which snub motor cars' jerks)-$960,330. Previous year, $1,033,630. President George H. Rails reminded stockholders that automobile production had fallen off 22% in 1927, Gabriel's earnings only...