Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passengers were booked for the optional trip to Damascus. Resolutely curious, they feared not rebels, waited with calm expectancy for their tour manager, Mr. Robert Grinsel, to disperse the heathen who barred their way. He, resourceful, secured from the resident French commander at Beirut an armed motor convoy and an armored train. Ninety-five of the tourists motored in trucks bristling with machine guns. The rest entrained behind stout armor plates from which bristled French 75's. No sooner were they quartered at the two principal hotels of Damascus than the usual evening bombardment of the suburbs...
...advantage of Diesel motors over gasoline motors in automobiles would be their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude...
Below, cities and countryside became indistinguishable. The earth looked "dull-colored, concave, saucer-like." Mist intervened and the plane droned up, isolated in boundless space. At 4,500 metres, Pilot Callizo clapped an oxygen tube to his mouth, fed his motor the same combustion-sustaining gas. At 11,500 metres the mer cury of his thermometer vanished from sight at 58° below zero...
Drift from Fords. The Ford Motor Co. permits scant publicity for its production figures. Only by inference may these be calculated at the present moment. That is not so difficult. Thus...
...January-June, 1926, U. S. motor car and truck production was 2,449,192. Companies other than the Ford Motor Co. made 1,590,220 cars and trucks. Ergo the Ford Motor Co. made 858,972, or 35.1% of the total. General Motors' production was 26% of the total. Last year the Ford Co. made 42.8% of all (in 1924 51.1%), General Motors, 19.2% (in 1924, 16%). The Ford Co.'s daily production averaged about 5,000 units the first six months of 1926, although the capacity is believed to exceed...