Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford beamed with health & optimism, last week, as they landed at Manhattan, returning from England, where they recently took tea with Britain's King & Queen (TIME, April 23). Though Motor Man Ford wore a quiet blue suit when he landed, his exuberance was betrayed by a cravat of lavender and mottled green. Cried he: "I'm cocksure about the future of American business. . . . The Presidential election has nothing to do with it! ... Business will keep on being good through the summer and fall. . . . Yes, sir, I am cocksure about...
...pedagogues can fix a broken-down automobile. Last week, on a lonely stretch of road 30 miles from Sofia, Bulgarian capital, two professors from the American College at Samakov tinkered for three hours over a balky motor car, became greasy, then filthy and finally exhausted, lackadaisical...
...dispirited were they that when another motor drew up alongside, neither pedagogue noted anything familiar or remarkable in .the appearance of the driver, a slim young man with an ineffectual black mustache which inspired no confidence...
...President Walter P. Chrysler of Chrysler Motors told his stockholders last week that the De Soto Motor Corp. now owned and operated by Chrysler, will soon introduce a new six-cylinder car to automobile buyers and the name of a Spanish explorer to the list of striking motor trademarks...
...million old motor cars are scrapped annually in the U. S., stated the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce...