Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospitable Brazilians rushed to completion two triumphal arches for their Argentine guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...leader two years ago, my interest in women would have been conducted on a strictly Aryan basis." To the family's great distress it is soon discovered that the professor, an eminent surgeon, has Jewish blood in his veins. At this point the Chancellor is injured in a motor accident. Only the Jewish professor is skillful enough to save him-with a blood transfusion donated by a Polish Jew servant. Fitfully slumbering as he recovers, the Jew-blooded Chancellor is now heard to murmur strangely of Liberty, Tolerance, Humanity...
Died. William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, 28, heavyweight prizefighter; following a motor crash; in Macon, Ga. Stribling was motorcycling to a hospital to see his wife and two-week-old baby when an automobile sideswiped him. He suffered a crushed pelvis, had to have his left foot amputated. Last fortnight he fought his 340th and final fight at Houston, getting a newspaper decision over Light-heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom...
...several months airway beacon lights have been turned off between flight schedules, to save money. Henceforth they will burn through the night. Of the Branch's 60 planes for official use, 14 have been put in dead storage. Director Vidal travels not in the handsome Ford tri-motor NSt used by Col. Young, but in a small Stinson which he flies himself...
...October when Ruth Etting's and Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante's time is up. Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman for Kraft-Phenix Cheese...