Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some motor manufacturer has been complaining about the Government and apparently the motor industry leaders are not prepared to play ball. We do not want to nationalize every industry in the country-at any rate, not at present, but they had better be warned. The people of this country are in no mood to stand any nonsense from private ownership. If they cannot deliver the goods the Government will...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...airplane will be able to do almost anything in the hangar except fly. Guns up to 75 mm. can be fired from the planes directly on to a firing range, dummy bombs dropped into pits sunk into the hangar floor. Take-offs and landings will be simulated, and motor vehicles road-tested...
...most of Spiegel's new hormones were self-generated in a razzle-dazzle retail expansion program. Last week Spiegel topped it off by buying ]. & R. Motor Supply Co., operator of a Midwest chain of 55 stores selling auto parts, radios, work clothes, general hardware. Reported price: about $2 million...
...afternoon of the 113th day, after a 25-hour nonstop conference, the General Motors strike was settled. When news of the settlement reached the pickets at the Cadillac motor plant, some of them wept. In Detroit, some pickets shouted, tore up their placards and threw them to the March winds; Chevrolet Local 235 ordered its men to keep marching until ratification of the agreement by the rank & file was final...