Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spanish operations against the Riffs became notably spectacular when several Spanish battalions made a dash in motor trucks southeastward from Ajdir, covered some 20 miles across the plain, and established themselves at Syan on the east Moroccan front. Thus they linked up with their allies the French forces, which have advanced into that region from Kifane, and apparently the Spanish thrust came as a complete surprise to both French and Riffians. If the move is consolidated into a strong series of military positions, it may well forestill the possibility of French forces attempting to operate in the so-called Spanish...
...appearances went, he might have tilted off into interstellar space. A towerman on the Pennsylvania said that he had seen a plane come out of a fog bank with all its lights lit, waver for a moment, vanish again. Farmers declared that they had heard the noise of a motor above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte. The plane lay in a tree, bottom up; the man dangled from the cockpit...
...periods of prosperity, and it is a matter of common knowledge that business prospects are apt to look rosiest just before the storm. Hence, many far-sighted business men have for some time been trying to find the secret worm in the present beautiful apple. Even the always optimistic motor makers underestimated just how well cars would sell this year. Many less enthusiastic lines of business have felt for some time that business is "too good"-a practically new complaint...
Ever since Walter P. Chrysler took over the dilapidated Maxwell Motor Co. and, after rechristening it with his own name, made of it the sensational motor producer of the past two seasons, his opinions on the whole motor industry are taken very seriously indeed, in and out of the trade...
...element in the G. E. machine is sulphur dioxide. The "out" to this material has always consisted of the fact that it quickly corrodes parts with which it comes into contact. Evidently the ingenious "G. E." engineers have overcome this, presumably by her metically sealing the equipment, including its motor, compressor and all other moving parts. Once or twice a month the machine will have to be shut down until the frost accumulated on its brine tank can melt...