Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...
...practical until their power was transmitted to all four wheels so their front wheels could pull their hind wheels out of mudholes. Blacksmith Zachow went to work in his brick machine shop, devised the world's first four-wheel drive car. The sprawling factories of Four Wheel Drive Auto Co. now employ almost a fourth of Clintonville's 3,500 residents, but not Otto Zachow. Last week, when "The Drive" got permission to list its stock on the Chicago Stock Exchange, Otto Zachow, grey and grim at 75, was still toiling in his brick smithy...
Notable during the past several days has been the activity of the Harvard Bureau for street Traffic Research, which attracted attention in the newspapers Thursday morning with a statement on auto headlights by Val J. Roper, of General Electric, and this morning with an address on traffic fatalities by a member of the National Safety Council. The public has slowly come to realize that driving a car is an exacting, complicated task. They are now eager to be told what the latest research in this field has discovered. For this reason, the Street Traffic Bureau is an important public oracle...
...figures put forward showed a four percent increase in automobile deaths during 1937, but it was pointed out that there has been an eight percent increase in auto travel during the same period which more than accounts for the increase in deaths. There were approximately 270 billion miles of auto travel in 1937 an increase of 20 billion over 1936 which makes the four percent increase in deaths not so discouraging...
...rainy day in Berlin, five years ago, Adolf Hitler's monoliterate Nazis solemnly heaped up a bonfire of books, solemnly burned them to death. Among the victims of this auto-da-fé were the books of such great Germans as Thomas Mann, as well as such "unGerman" writers as Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Judge Ben Lindsey. Drizzling skies kept the bonfire from blazing, but the smoke of it still stinks in democratic nostrils. Last week, with plans afoot for the next session of the International Congress of Book Publishers, to be held this year at Leipzig...