Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn such blades efficiently, airplanes must have lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
...Tyro Vines would have promptly driven back to Pasadena (or perhaps on to the national tennis matches at Forest Hills) were it not for the fact that he had taken along a young Southern California tank-town actor named Pat Abbott to keep him company on his trans continental motor trip. Pat Abbott was still in the tournament...
...were in feldgrau from the North Sea to the Danube. All men under 65 were forbidden to leave Germany. All former officers and technicians of the air force were called to the colors. Doctors were required to register their vacation addresses with the police. Hundreds of private motor vehicles were rented or requisitioned and all German farm horses which had completed their harvest work were conscripted by the army. Non-military building projects as important as Munich's new subway were virtually suspended. If this was not mobilization, the French had no other name...
...Motor Car; New York State Traffic Commission...
...miles around pylons. Hottest shots in the field of eight were flashy Colonel Roscoe Turner, 1934 winner and unscathed veteran of six Thompson competitions; and his reckless young San Diego rival, towheaded Earl Ortman. At 100 miles they had lapped all the field but one. Then Ortman's motor sputtered, slowed him up, and Turner won with an average of 283 m. p. h. Happy over the prospect of $18,000 first money and a bonus of $4,000 for breaking the course record (264 m.p.h.), Turner attributed his good luck to the godspeed of two old ladies whose...