Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magnanimous, too, last week, was immaculate Grover Whalen, Manhattan's debonair chief policeman. On Park Row one Prescott Robinson, ebullient young surface car trackwalker, "gave the bird" (burbled offensively with fat tongue in loose lips) to Commissioner Whalen's gleaming motor. Detective Carl Lynn leaped from the Commissioner's side, arrested the burbling trackwalker, haled him to police headquarters. Like Minister Liaptcheff Commissioner Whalen "refused to prosecute...
...peculiar part of the autogiro is, of course, its four horizontal vanes. Their orbit is 30 ft. in diameter, extending over the tail and beyond the tractor motor...
When he was ready to fly Señor de la Cierva started his tractor motor with his landing wheel brakes on. Then he had a bystander give his vanes a shove. They wobbled around about once a minute. He speeded up his motor and the propeller slipstream made the vanes rotate rapidly, about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
...uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...