Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown his once long and silken beard that ignorant visitors to Russia thought him a typical Communist. His curiosity about business satisfied, Boston's champion of Red-bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took the next plane for Berlin...
Daniel Calhoun Roper, Secretary of Commerce, who declared the U. S. should be "aeroized" just as it was "motorized." For a means of "aeroizing" the country he suggested that the Howell Committee confer with "some of the outstanding leaders in the motor industry...
...submitted to all men interested at the first open meeting on Tuesday night. It is hoped that due to increased interest in flying, the Club will be able to purchase an even better and more high powered ship this year. A modern three place biplane with a 165 horsepower motor is under consideration. This ship, combining a landing speed of 48 mph with a cruising speed of 115 mph, is ideal for club purpose. For the experienced Pilot, it will bring Philadelphia and Montreal within two and a half hour cruising range, while New York will be less than...
...with a cruising speed of 95 miles an hour. It is hoped that the club will be able to buy a new plane this year; possible choices are a later model Fairchild, a Fleet trainer, or a Curtiss-Wright Travel Air three-place sport model, with a 165 horsepower motor and a cruising speed of 115 miles an hour...
...allowance given her by her father, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Virginia Gates McCafferty took her new hitchhiking husband Dan on a motor honeymoon to California. Near Dixon they crashed head-on into another car, fatally injuring a young girl, suffering head injuries themselves...