Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgatherers scoured the Midwest for corroboration of all this exciting news. Governor A. G. Sorlie of North Dakota reported that his State would send a motor squadron and that he would lead it. Chairman William Hirth of the Corn Belt Federation reported from Des Moines, la., that the 1,000,000 farmers represented by himself and colleagues would "make a last stand for equality of opportunity . . . at Kansas City"; that if either Mr. Coolidge or Mr. Hoover were nominated, it would "result in a wholesale bolt of the party by the farmers...
Early in May, Mr. Travis and associates incorporated the American Motor Transportation Co. in Delaware to take over the operating rights and facilities of several bus lines in the East and Midwest. And last week (a fortnight later) Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, investment house was selling preferred stock in the company. California Transit controls the voting stock. Mr. Travis is president of both companies...
...projected the motor stage service will run from Los Angeles through Denver, Omaha, Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City. St. Joseph, St. Louis. Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York...
...largest. Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...
Fisk (from Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Hood (from Watertown, Mass.) have impressed tire-users with their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...