Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Splendidly ringed with red, white & blue stripes around the turret, The Old Man's tank roared past a regiment of truck-borne infantry; past 300 motorcyclists; past truck-towed, 37-mm. antitank guns (see cut); past the motor-drawn field artillery; finally veered toward the tank regiments. As he passed the 68th, The Old Man was a barely visible projection above the turret of his tank. His tank whirled, spat back to the reviewing stand. Company D relaxed...
...touch on the starter, the motor roared, then settled into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
...Supreme Court refused to review Ford's appeal from a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The decision had ordered the Ford Motor Co. to reinstate 23 employes who NLRB had found were discharged for union activity. Many months might elapse before Maverick Ford could be saddled and ridden, like other well-regulated industrial horses; many more before he would work in harness with labor and the Government. But the Supreme Court ruling made the Ford Motor Co. and all Ford officials subject to unlimited contempt of court sentences by the Sixth Circuit Court if they intimidate, coerce, threaten...
From the hazards of embryonic life or the rough passage of birth, one out of some 1,000 children emerges with certain motor centres of his brain seriously damaged. If he matures, his central nervous system remains in an infantile state, like a telephone switchboard with crossed wires. Bombarded by sense impulses, he always gets the wrong number-brings the wrong muscles into play. Such children are victims of spastic paralysis. In walking, their toes scrape the ground, their legs cross in a scissors bend, and the touch of a finger may send them sprawling...
...swept through the town. But the people of Vichy soon learned that the officers were not part of an occupying army. They were members of the Armistice Commission which sits at Limoges, come to attend the funeral of a French colleague, Captain Rousseau, who had been killed in a motor accident. Nevertheless, fear was the dominant emotion in the capital of unoccupied France last week...