Word: motors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial of John J. Raskob (du Pont interests, General Motors, Democratic National Committee) in memory of his son, who was killed in a motor accident last summer (TIME, July...
...rubbed into the skin it dilates the blood vessels and relieves the twinges of lumbago, neuritis, "muscular rheumatism." Anhydrous alcohol (alcohol with all but 0.1% of its water removed) makes gasoline more potent, but at present gasoline is cheaper than alcohol and industrial alcohol is not much used for motor fuel in this country. In Germany, however (where cheap gasoline is not so readily available), many an automobile guzzles a mixture of about half alcohol, half gasoline
Anne Forrest (recovered from her motor crash of last fortnight) facilely creates the calcimined aura of a midway strumpet and Norman Foster's Bobbie is sufficiently naif. But the emotions and events of William R. Doyle's drama are all obvious and hackneyed. Simplicity without beauty makes for mediocrity...
...shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...
...Guggenheim Fund safe aircraft competition will be derided next October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...