Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bloody solution of mining feuds, bootleg wars, Klan activities, last week developed some new reactions. Two gangs, one run by a man named Carl Shelton, the other by a rival bootlegger, Charles Birger, took a dislike to each other and pursued their differences with machine gun attacks, armored motor cars, ambuscades, profanity and murder. The first mute witness to law and order in Herrin was a human hand which reached stiffly for the sky, emerging from the shallows of the Big Saline river near Equality...
...fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things now largely take care of themselves. It is pleasanter to be Maecenas than Croesus...
Ford Implications. Ford Motor Co. placed a materials order at Cleveland last week, which implies the coming production of a new Ford car with larger brake drums and gasoline tank and a changed running board. The modifications require 17,000 tons of steel additional to the company's normal annual tonnage. If Ford bodies were made entirely of steel, the increased tonnage would be 55,000, according to the Daily Metal Trade...
Edward E. Jordan (motor cars) said, with his usual crispness: "I have always maintained that the solution of the European problem does not lie in a group of men sitting around a table and figuring out what somebody owes; it lies in the introduction of 2,000,000 Fords and 2,000,000 telephones to cut down the cost of transportation, break down the barriers of language, religion, custom and prejudice. ... I think the most impressive fact in the last year's experience in business is that the industry shipped over 700,000 automobiles to foreign countries...
...more do young hearts melt, as once all young hearts did, at the piteous gaze in the liquid eyes of the fleet and noble steed, Black Beauty. That steed was passed and lost in dust by The Motor Boys...