Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colon, Panama the motor of an Army amphibian exploded, hurled a jagged piece of metal into the stomach of Private Ralph H. Lawson, killed...
Only three days before, at the hour that Ambassador Caffery was due to leave for church, a motor car drove past his home and its occupants fired a fusillade, mortally wounding one military guard. Next day the automobile of First Secretary H. Freeman Matthews was assaulted only a short distance from the Caffery residence, but Secretary Matthews was not in it. All Havana seemed to be seething with anti-U. S. feeling and the assassination of the U. S. Ambassador would have been welcomed by many...
...Chicago of the Downs? The County armed. Huge Webley & Scott revolvers were issued to the local police, a fact that produced eight column headlines in the London Press. Brass-helmeted firemen were mobilized. Hundreds of volunteers scoured the hedgerows and lanes in cars and on chugging motor bikes. Unasked, Sir Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts joined the man hunt...
...Boss Farley, to the dismay of Michigan Congressmen. They rejoiced, if they did not assist, when the Detroit Free Press began to publish accusations against Collector Abbott: Deputy Collector John J. Tighe, his friend, had used his tax collecting credentials to solicit from Hugh J. Ferry, treasurer of Packard Motor Car Co., $50,000-$30,000 for the Democratic campaign deficit and $20,000 to lobby for PWA funds in Washington; other Abbott friends and appointees had "sold" postmasterships at $100 a head, had collected money to "assist" Michigan bankers to get the Government's deposit guarantee...
...named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland they ran into fog and motor trouble. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field, 2,600 mi. short of their goal, they landed, having flown 3,600 mi. in 38 hr. 27 min. 11 hr. 10 min. slower than Coste & Bellonte). A great thing done twice loses much of its public appeal. But France made Rossi...