Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never had B.C. rubbed elbows with so many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
...system's chief working parts (as applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
...Pittsburgh, an auto thief jumped into Lee McGuigan's car, rolled slowly downhill to a stop, ran away defeated when he found that the motor had been removed for repairs...
Results of the Council's poll, in the form of postcard questionnaires sent to all students owning motor vehicles, will be tabulated Monday, and if the demand is neglible, the Corporation will probably veto the Stadium plan. But a fairly substantial vote for the proposal may bring about the creation of the first University-sponsored parking...
...fourth trip-with 16 aboard the raft-went badly. The raft was swamped; a motor launch which managed to get its people aboard was hit by a wave which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...