Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rout was terrible. While British mechanized columns pruned and hacked, the R. A. F. poured bombs and machine-gun lead on motor transport, camps, supply depots, airdromes, and on the soldierly runners. The fleet moved along, throwing everything but the gun turrets at the coastal road. At Bardia some vessels edged in just a half mile from shore and pumped their biggest shells into the town. The fleeing Italians abandoned everything, leaving large supplies of tinned food, oil, water, Chianti, mules, lorries, truckloads of documents, new tanks, guns...
...Street traffic in Moscow has improved tremendously. ... I was amazed at the number and excellence of taxicabs and private motor cars which circulate now in the Soviet metropolis...
...little racer, under the rules of the newly organized American Miniature Racing Car Association, cannot be more than 24 inches long. The average miniature is 16 inches long, weighs seven pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average...
...Plymouth is Tobey's motor court with connected series of apartments, equipped for cooking, and one-car garages. Opened late last summer, this is said to be the first establishment of the kind in this part of the country...
Died. Allan A. Ryan, 61, Wall Street operator who cornered Stutz Motor stock in 1920 (forcing the price from $70 to $724 a share), then lost even his Exchange seat; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Because he denounced his late, great father for taking a second wife twelve days after the death of his first, Financier Ryan was cut off with a set of pearl studs in the $135,000,000 will of Tobacco Baron Thomas Fortune Ryan...