Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ere 1921 that he, his brother & Jimmie Byrd built up the Supermarine Aviation Works-not "Motor Co."-at Southampton...
...mixed force of 200 bluejackets and Royal Marines tumbled out of motor lorries at Serowe, Bechuanaland last week, set up a strong wire barricade, a khaki tent fly for a canopy and unfolded two canvas chairs. A host of 15,000 chattering, grinning natives gathered round the fence, for on the chairs sat two mighty chieftains come to judge the native Chief Tshekedi...
...staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started him in airplane building. In the War, Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British Supermarine Motor Co. He sank his whole fortune financing and building the plane that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year. He happened into the motorboat building industry when he and his wife, Brenda Scott-Paine, almost as good a boat-driver...
Havana settled down. Lurid stories of massacre, revolution and Negro uprisings continued to filter in to the capital from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which...
...formed a new firm, General American Life Insurance Co., with paid-in capital of $2,000,000, offered to take over Missouri State Life's business. ¶Studebaker Corp. owned all the Class B shares, 152,000 Class A shares and 23,500 preferred shares of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. Six months ago, when Studebaker Corp. passed into receivership (TIME, March 27), Fierce-Arrow went quietly on its normal way. Officers of Fierce-Arrow were chagrined, however, to have their pseudo-parent in receivership. Last week President Arthur J. Chanter of Fierce-Arrow announced that with the backing...