Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred by a woman striker seriously injured by this motor onslaught...
...same morning at Strasbourg, France, the gasoline tank of a motor bus exploded in a car barn, covered ten workmen with flaming gasoline; three soon died; others were expected...
...campaign was rough, personal. Hague called Burkitt "a contemptible scoundrel and carpet-bagger." The question of whether Mrs. Burkitt worked or not became a political issue. The Fusionist candidates-a nurseryman, a plumbing contractor, a motor salesman, an attorney, a roofing contractor-were obscured by the battle of Burkitt v. Hague...
That done, they hauled tarpaulin, chain and padlocks from their cabin and securely shrouded their motor from prying eyes. They had reached Langley Field in 6 hrs. 50 min. flying time and they took precautions because, underneath the chain-wrapped tarpaulin, was the first diesel-type motor ever used successfully for airplane propulsion. The flyers were Mechanical-engineers Lionel M. Woolson and Walter Edwin Lees. Their employer, developer of something new and great in the air, was Packard Motor...
Although it has not been definitely decided, it is expected that the new plane will have a Wright Whirlwind motor of the same principle as the one used by Lindbergh in his trans-atlantic flight...