Word: motorize
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...hand were former G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall; J. Willard Marriott, the Mormon millionaire owner of the Hot Shoppe restaurant chain and Marriott Motor Hotels; Clifford Folger, the Washington financier who was national Republican finance chairman for the presidential campaigns of 1956 and 1960; L. William Seidman, a wealthy Michigan accountant with offices around the world, who ran unsuccessfully for state auditor on Romney's ticket in 1962; Detroit Real Estate Millionaire Max Fisher, this year's national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Also present were Romney's attorney, Richard van Dusen...
Back in the days of flivvers and flappers, the Ford Tri-Motor transport was the workhorse of U.S. aviation. The "Tin Goose" was shaped like a slightly rhomboid crackerbox, sheathed in corrugated aluminum and equipped with engines slung under each wing and planted on its nose. It flew for every budding U.S. airline, for the Army, the Navy, the Marines. It hauled passengers and freight, landed on wheels, pontoons and skis. Nearly 200 Ford Tri-Motors were built between 1925 and 1932. Astonishingly, some 28 of these chicle, cattle, piping-and people-ferrying air craft are still flying between remote...
...international renegade ever since it broke away from British rule 13 months ago. By a vote of 11 to 0-with four abstentions-the council declared an international embargo on 90% of Rhodesia's exports, forbade the U.N.'s 122-member nations to sell oil, arms, motor vehicles or airplanes to the rebel territory or to provide it with any form of "financial or other economic...
...Leyland Motor Corp., the Commonwealth's largest producer of heavy trucks, last week made an apparently successful $70-million bid to buy the Rover Co., whose Land Rover sales have been hit by Japanese competition. With 70,000 employees and $840-million-a-year revenue from 10% of the passenger-car and 25% of the commercial-vehicle markets, Leyland-Rover would become Britain's No. 3 automak er, after British Motor Corp. and Ford. Though the marriage seems to be one of necessity. Leyland Chairman Sir William Black says that Rover has been "a glint...
...MOTOR CARS OF THE GOLDEN PAST by Ken W. Purdy. 216 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $30. A nostalgic look at the days when now-vanished beauties such as the Apperson Jack Rabbit, the Pierce Arrow, the Willis Sainte Claire and the Stutz Bearcat tore up American roads. The vintage year was 1929, with its Kissel White Eagle, the Graham-Paige 837 with skirted fenders, the boat-tailed Auburn roadster and the dual-cowled Duesenberg phaeton. Park a while and reminisce...