Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buick Motor Co. Denver...
William Zebina Ripley, Harvard economist: "In Manhattan one night last week, two children were killed, and eight adults were badly smashed in motor accidents. Mary Hutchinson, 20, dancer in Castles in the Air, had both legs broken. I, proceeding by taxicab with a lady to a Waldorf Astoria function, was suddenly hurled against the side of the vehicle. Glass cut me over the right eye. My skull was not, as first feared, fractured. My companion, hurled against me, was unhurt. Next day, as I lay in a hospital, Lawyers Louis Marshall and Gilbert H. Montague (verbally) and Corporation Director Maurice...
John W. Anderson, attorney who organized the Ford Motor Co.: "I was called to the witness stand in the $34,000,000 Ford tax suit now in progress in Detroit. I told how I invested $5,000 which later mounted to several millions. I told about a certain night in 1913. Said I: 'On that particular night I arrived at Geneva, Switzerland. The children were there and we had dinner in our rooms. The cable [announcing Ford stock to be worth $500 a share] was handed to me. . . . I told Mrs. Anderson to put on her hat and we would...
They looked like toy launches made to float in a bathtub, but they were bigger. They stood on varnished or gilded cradles in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan-exhibits of the annual motor boat show. Salesmen at every booth gave away folders in blue and gold, in sea-green and orange, describing in fascinating language the advantages of their model's. Well-dressed people read the literature, studied the bright little boats...
...successful that Mr. Packard was able to retire in 1916 from the presidency of the Packard Motor Car Co. He was succeeded by a man four years behind him at Lehigh (but not a graduate), Alvan Macauley...