Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly six miles a minute, looked like a flame (from the exhausts) streaking through a cloud of salt. At the finish of the run, 200-lb. Captain Eyston had trouble getting out of the cockpit. "I had a devil of a time," he chuckled. "The heat of the motor must have swelled my body...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...autumn, took action. Viscount Runciman had been 15 days in Czechoslovakia without meeting Konrad Henlein, who thought his prestige would be enhanced if he made the British lord call on him. This, the Viscount had refused to do, but in last week's emergency Lord Runciman consented to motor from Prague into the Sudeten Nazi territory and meet Herr Henlein in the castle of Prince Max von Hohenlohe, whose lands extend right up to the German frontier...
...overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned for a police launch to take her back. Meanwhile, her determined husband was picked up by a passing motor boat...
...still wholly subordinate, to the army's. Workers about to set out on vacation tours or cruises of the Strength Through Joy organization found these had all been "canceled indefinitely." In Munich and in most German cities near the Eastern border, people waited on street corners for the motor busses which usually take them to work, then were told they had better walk, since the army had commandeered the busses. Even mail trucks of the German Post Office stopped delivering letters, began delivering soldiers, reservists and supplies. As men called to the colors left their jobs all over Germany...