Word: renault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last week, flying a tiny blue Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly...
...When Renault's (automobiles, tanks, airplane engines, shells) 34,000 workers, comprising France's biggest single company, caught retiring bourgeois President Louis Renault inside his Billancourt office, they locked him in. Though the owners were cheerfully remarking that they had never been so well protected against fire, theft and sabotage, Louis Renault had no stomach for his workers' company, shortly gave in to their demands...
...displayed to the visitors but an intimate view was also given of the modern France. There was a visit to the Manufacture de Sevres where the famous porcelain wares are turned out; a tour of the Le Printemps, which is a leading department store; and an excursion to the Renault motor car factory...
...Just inside the walls of Paris, the Austrian's special train stopped at a tiny station and on the platform stood tall Premier Flandin with short Foreign Minister Laval beaming welcome. Out hopped Chancellor Schuschnigg with his Foreign Minister, morose Dr. Egon Berger-Waldenegg. Stepping into a sleek Renault all four statesmen sped through Paris, delivered Fascist Schuschnigg safe at the ornate Hotel Crillon while patient police kept the duped and battling Reds and Pinks at the Gare de l'Est as busy as they could...
...long been the goal of a heavyset, square-jawed Frenchman named Raymond Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four, set a new record. To Pilot Delmotte, for his pains, the French Air Ministry promptly awarded...