Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christie light tank, powered with a Liberty motor, plunged and reared across a churned-up field at 40 m. p. h. With the track-laying belt removed, this tank had gone 69 m. p. h., might go 90 m. p. h. on a good road...
President of White Motor Co. and a director of Coca-Cola was, until his death last fortnight (TIME, Oct. 7), Walter C. White. President of Coca-Cola Co. was his great & good friend, Robert W. Woodruff, also a director of White. Last week Mr. Woodruff was elected president of White, told pleased directors he would manage both companies simultaneously, adding "I'll live in a Pullman car, I guess. I've lived almost entirely in one for the last several years anyway." Although Mr. Woodruff, 40, was 13 years younger than Walter White, the two men were famed...
President Woodruff's experience with White Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Elected. Robert Winship Woodruff, president of Coca-Cola Co.; to the presidency of White Motor Co., left vacant by the death of his friend, Walter C. Vhite (TIME...
...very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving a motor vehicle" and scaring his football squads...