Word: scintilla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bendix Aviation is another channel whereby General Motors has recently entered aviation. Bendix Aviation combines Bendix Brake Co., Eclipse Machine Co., Delco Aviation, Stromberg Motor Devices and Scintilla Magneto, and since last week Pioneer Instrument. In forming Bendix Aviation the Curtiss, Wright, United and Aviation Corp. interests worked with General Motors...
...automobile industry has developed many an accessory industry (notably tires) so the aviation industry has its accessory fields. Thus Scintilla magnetos are standard equipment on Curtiss, Wright and Pratt & Whitney engines. Thus ignition systems built by Delco Aviation Corp., General Motors subsidiary, are used on all Liberty aviation engines. As the aviation industry develops, so the making of aviation accessories increases as well...
...often days was cruel and wrong; that has been known for centuries. My discovery was that the bulk of this atrocity was so enormous, so much worst in character than was thought, that it was quite unnecessary, thus robbing the fur industry, as now carried on, of every scintilla of ethical justification...
...English Government, in my five years in office, has never interfered to the extent of a tittle or a scintilla in any Irish matter . . . .I pledge my faith and honor upon this...
...investigators reported to the Senate that there was "not one scintilla of evidence" that Senators Borah, LaFollette, Norris and Heflin had been paid, or even offered one cent. The Mexican Government pronounced Mr. Hearst's documents total forgeries. The Senate Committee proceeded therefore to try to find out who did the forging and why. To this end U. S. Secret Service men were called in. The investigators also sought evidence of the messages and money supposed to have been telegraphed from Mexico to Consul General Elias. Such evidence, to prove the validity of Hearst-published documents, was lacking. Investigation...