Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Lord Kylsant is leaving his competitors behind with a fleet of some 50 motors ships under his control, the largest in the world. Naturally his speech last week turned to the motor ship; the ship with an engine running by explosions like those in an automobile motor, instead of by the push of expanding steam as in a locomotive...
Engineers have long ago proved theoretically and by individual test the superiority of the motor ship; but the old salts of the sea are still suspicious, as they were once of steam. "Sails," they said, "are safer than expanding steam." "Steam," they say, "is safer than exploding oil." Lord Kylsant, director of some 488 steamships and some 50 motor ships, said last week : "The experience of ship owners who have operated motor vessels is . . . contrary to expectation . . . that they are both reliable and dependable . . . cheaper to run . . . can carry larger cargoes. . . . Our motor ships have covered 7,500,000 miles...
...Augustus, "the first all-Fascist built ship," will be the largest motor ship in the world (33,000 tons). She slid into the water at Genoa last week only eight months after her keel was laid, and her great Diesel motors will send her churning to South America seven months hence...
...hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, Packard Motor Car dealer in Boston, Governor of Massachusetts: "Last week I purchased in Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...