Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon after dawn as is seemly, the pajama-clad small fry whoop into "Grandpa's" bedroom, bounce on his bed, shout "Merry Christmas," and dive for the bulging red stockings hanging from the mantelpiece. After breakfast (smoked sausages and scrambled eggs) the President and the immediate family motor around old Lafayette Square to the grey granite St. Thomas Episcopal Church...
...eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin mannequin, who was later severely injured in the motor accident in which Prince Serge Mdivani, ex-husband of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, was killed. The youngest, August Jr., became embittered at his father and had visions of founding an industrial empire of his own. Father August ran Son August into bankruptcy, and the son retaliated by contributing...
...walked in the hills behind Palo Alto with Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, went fishing at the drop of a hat. He took long motor trips, helped raise money for Stanford, talked with old pedagogical friends like Professor Murray (classical literature), Professor Lutz (history), and answered letters that poured...
...Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, proclaiming a set of "principles of responsibility." This noteworthy document was at once a confession of past sins and a command to the membership to sin no more by sit-downs, slowdowns, stay-ins, rash walkouts. It was also a promise that motor-makers with unionized plants can finish their booming 1940 season without a repetition of the rash, costly Chrysler shutdown (TIME, Dec. 4). Excerpts...
...half. The Swedish Air Force has some 250 planes, Norway's and Denmark's less than 100 each. Sweden has a small but efficient Navy of six cruisers, three pocket battleships, five coast defense ships, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, eight torpedo boats, 16 submarines and 31 motor torpedo boats. Neither Norway nor Denmark has anything that might be called a navy...