Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite as brave as ex-Monk Freyden-berg was Pierre Pigeaire, a correspondent for the United Press. Alone, he traveled by motor, horse and foot 300 miles from the railhead at Marrakesh to the scene of the ambush, sent the first direct word of the battle. At Meknes base hospital Lieut. Briard. wounded in the first skirmish, told how he had lain behind a desert bush and watched his wounded comrades being stabbed to death by Moors...
...blasts were blown on the Maracaibo's whistle. At this pre-arranged signal motor trucks loaded with guns and ammunition careened down to the pier. The munitions were stolen from Fort Amsterdam, three of whose 71 defenders had been killed in the raid...
Alarmed at the increased importation into Italy of foreign cars, chiefly from the U. S., the Royal Italian Automobile Club, Fascist-governed, announced that in future they would publish in all Fascist newspapers the names and addresses of all Italians who purchase foreign motor cars, "A proscription list for bad Italians who betray their most elementary duties to the nation out of a spirit of automobilistic snobbery...
...proposed list must not resolve itself into a journalistic, polemic affair. It must be done with serious intentions. Every one must state exactly the reasons why he gave preference to a foreign motor car in order that these reasons may be studied and weighed...
Charles Lanier Lawrance: Engineer: the inventor of a motor that has made flying more safe...