Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, President Coolidge officially "opened" the Atlantic Coastal Highway, a defensively strategic motor-road system composed of links otherwise named (viz., Boston Post Road, Lincoln Highway) and new links costing $100,000,000, connecting Calais, Me., and Key West...
Many a distinction exists, however, between G. M. and Opel for G. M., began as a motor car producer, is only 20 years old. But Adam Opel began making sewing machines in Russelheim when Yankee volunteers retreated from Bull Run. Early in the 80's Founder Adam bought an English bicycle for his son, and in 1886 added a bicycle factory to the Opel works! Clever merchandizer, he knew selfconscious Germans would hesitate to appear ridiculous. Accordingly, he provided Opel halls where amateurs might learn to ride Opel bicycles. The Opel cycle factory is today the largest...
...cylinders, a cardan-shift drive. Three years later, Opel engineers developed machines of 45 to 50 horsepower. Automobile production became the chief business at Russelheim. And when fire destroyed the sewing-machine plant in 1911, it was not rebuilt. The new Opel's concentrated on bicycles, motor cars...
...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...
...Every motor car would be headed for the scrapheap; every loudspeaker would be silent; every telephone would 'go dead'; every electric light would go out. The gloveless surgeon would be unable to perform his life-saving operations. . . . Contemporary man could not get along. . . . Life would be devoid of half its conveniences and comforts...