Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Company Buffalo...
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon...
...transportation system. He advocated that 30,000 miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...
Railroads have begun to make use of the motor industry, whose inroads on freight and passenger traffic railroad officials have regarded with more or less apathy. President Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central told the Toledo (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce how great those inroads have been. Railroads operate over more than a quarter-million miles of track which they have had to lay down and maintain. Motors run over three million miles of roads supported by taxation. Some of the $360,000,000 of taxes ($1,000,000 a day) which U.S. railroads pay yearly go to maintain...
...this situation President Crowley sees benefit to the railroads. The public is habituated by motor cars to traveling. What railroads lose from short-haul traffic, they gain in the long haul. The Twentieth Century Limited yearly carried as many passengers as are booked first class on all the trans-atlantic steamers, and runs 2,000 sections a year...