Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dillinger on theatre screens in Washington. Chicago and elsewhere. More significant was his promise of additional facilities to the Department of Justice. Demanding 200 more agents and fast cars armed with machine guns, Attorney General Cummings recently said: "If we had been equipped with planes or even fast motor cars . . . John Dillinger would have been captured...
...Boss, this is getting high." But he was anticipated by some young gentleman who already had tipped Harvard's riot buster off, and in a few minutes the Colonel himself drove up in his Buick with a squeaking of brakes and hopped out into Mill Street leaving his motor running and crying, "All right you, Break it up, and go Home." This produced magnificent effects and by pushing all the men who lived in Eliot House down toward Dunster and all Winthrop men up toward Adams House the riot broke up miraculously. Leaving only the Colonel to brood over...
Last week a supercharged 800-h.p. Hornet motor flew from Detroit to New York (550 mi.) in 1 hr.. 47 min.. 21 sec., averaging 308.4 m.p.h. or more than five miles a minute. Tacked to it was a tiny fuselage just big enough to hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...
Charles H. Johnson of Cranberry Lake, N. J.: the seventh annual outboard-motor boat marathon down the Hudson River from Albany to New York (132¼ mi.) in 2 hr., 59 min., 38 sec. In his Class C boat, Dorchart III, the 23-year-old driver averaged 44.2 m.p.h., came within 3 min. of the course record set by a higher-powered boat. Winner of Amateur Class A and one of 18 drivers to finish in a field of 66 starters, was Gar Wood Jr., 16-year-old son of the famed speedboating "Silver Fox of Algonac." Youngster Wood...
...timepieces, and the clocks are fed through a control. The control includes a spring-driven clock (kept wound electrically) which will run during the failure of the electric supply and measure exactly the duration of the interruption. When the electric service is restored, the control cuts in a connecting motor generator set which drives all the clocks on the system at greater than normal speed until the lapsed time is made up. When the clocks are again thrown on the electric service...