Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motor Transportation. Railroads are now beginning to look upon the motor bus as co-operative rather than competitive factor. Fifty railroads in the U. S. and Canada now use motor buses and trucks for passengers and shipping...
...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...
...bituminous deposits in the U. S. can supply the world's need of motor fuel for 800 years, according to Dr. Gustav Egloff, technical director Universal Oil Products Co., Chicago...
...Bergius of Heidelberg, Germany, runs a ton of soft coal, or even lignite, through heated chambers and squirts hydrogen gas at the oozing tar that runs from the coal, he gets 140 gallons of heavy oil. About one-third of this consists of aromatic hydrocarbons, suitable for "no knock" motor fuel. The rest is gas oil, lubricating oil, fuel...
That to engage a motor vehicle for longer than an hour, or proceed in one more than five miles from Oxford, or fly in an airplane, was fractious...