Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cruising along at 6,000 ft., Pilots Eugene Schacher and Ed Hefley suddenly smelled a gasoline leak, cut the motor. Without warning a backfire enveloped the engine in flames. Pilot Hefley put the ship into a sharp dive. At 275 m.p.h. it hurtled downward, pancaked on the nearest field, slithered to a stop. Out from their blazing little hole Jesse Jones and three fellow-passengers yanked the pilots, arms and faces seared and sooty. Few minutes later the plane was smoking ashes...
...likes to scatter his largesse in out-of-the-way places. He has given $500,000 to California's Save-the-Red-woods League, $2,500 to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to buy anesthetics for maternity hospitals. He once persuaded Great Britain to run a smelly motor highway around Grantchester because that village had been the home of Poet Rupert Brooke. He has built two hospitals, Columbia University's $7,500,000 Medical Centre and a $600,000 dispensary for the employes of his family's Southern Pacific Railroad. Like many another philanthropist, he is often accused...
...asked to see her papers. At once the four men yanked down their distress signal, hoisted sail, made off toward the South American coast. There every ship and port at once set eager watch for her, for the Lorraine Cross radioed that the shy Margaret Harold was really the motor trawler Girl Pat which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day, was outlawed by Lloyd's and was last seen at Dakar, French West Africa, three weeks ago (TIME, June...
RETURN TO COOLAMI-Eleanor Dark- Macmillan ($2.50). Author Dark makes conservative use of the stream-of- consciousness technique in a carefully manipulated account of a two-day motor trip in Australia, during which a serious marital tangle is straightened...
GREEN MOUNTAINS TO SIERRAS-Zephine Humphrey-Dutton ($2.50). This record of the transcontinental motor tour of a Vermont painter and his wife makes pleasant reading, except for an occasional lapse into coyness. The Humphreys traveled for the winter on the price of their usual coal supply...