Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minnesota, the highway employees have removed the last of the advertisements marring the motor roads through that state. Housewives of Crystal Bay, Lake Minnetonka, near Minneapolis, have voted to "boycott all articles advertised on billboards in their vicinity...
...supposedly friendly relations between Henry Ford and Col. Henry M. Leland were shown to be anything but amicable by a recent letter which Col. Leland has sent out to Lincoln Motor stockholders...
About two years ago, the Lincoln Motor Co., headed by Col. Leland, was forced into a receivership. After endeavoring to interest several wealthy interests, the Lelands at length went to Henry Ford. An agreement was arrived at between them, whereby Ford acquired the Lincoln plant, leaving Col. Leland in charge of it and apparently agreeing to indemnify approved creditors and stockholders...
...Motor failure is provided for by using two motors, one behind the other, placed on top of the wing, each driving its own propeller. In an ordinary twin engine airplane, with the engines placed one on each side of the centre, if one motor fails there is a dangerous tendency to slew the machine 'round. With the motors in tandem, the thrust of the propellers is always at the centre of the plane; and with one motor completely out of commission, the aviator can keep on going, even though at a slower speed. The engines are carefully housed...
...officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller of a Liberty motor revolves at 1,600 revolutions per minute-so rapidly that a point on the blade may travel at 500 miles an hour. The impact of a bird at such speed would be terrific, and the propeller being already strained to a high point by centrifugal force, would burst into a dozen...