Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane was born in 1903 in Bridgewater, Mass. Mickey and his brother Archie (who now plays on a Ford Motor Co semiprofessional team) learned baseball almost as soon as they learned to walk but, partly because Harvard's Eddie Mahan was a hero to all New England urchins in 1915, football was Mickey Cochrane s first specialty. At Boston University his exploits of a dozen years ago are still legend. His method of practicing was to divide the squad into two sides-eleven men on one, himself on the other-and call for a kickoff...
...Turkish Commander Wahib Pasha. Long exiled by Turkey's Dictator Kemal, "Old Eagle Beak," as he is known? to U. S. correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes that they must soon de fend. Neither mud nor water could stop them. At a river bank 100 blacks lifted each truck to their sturdy shoulders and waded across...
...monoplane, built to carry 1,200 lb. of bombs as well as four machine guns. With a reported speed of 250 m.p.h., it, too, was being groomed with much secrecy for the U. S. Army. It was only 300 ft. off the ground on its second flight when the motor abruptly cut out. Faced with high-tension wires over the smooth field ahead, Pilot Thomas Van Stone tried to turn back to the airport. The heavy plane stalled, crashed to earth, killed Pilot Stone and Co-Pilot Dugald Blue instantly...
...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...
Built with great secrecy at a cost of $120,000, Hughes's low-wing monoplane is equipped with a tremendous Wasp motor, a fuselage longer than the wingspan, a curious stilt-like landing gear which folds during flight. For two days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced...