Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor cars, the squeals of subways, the various rattles and reverberations of modern times make of life a jagged symphony written by a celestial Gershwin. And escape from it does not come in the home where someone must play a radio or a piano with the electric energy of eternity...
...Duchess in her sleek, silent motor sped ahead of them to Curzon House, Curzon Street, Mayfair. As the brawny packers unpacked, she gazed approvingly about her at the comfortable Georgian spaciousness of her new winter home. Court gossips have it that she and the Duke found the suite of apartments at their disposal in Buckingham Palace "a bit awkward for entertaining" and White Lodge, "too far out of town." Curzon House is at the very focus of London's fashionable West End, and moreover near Chesterfield House, the town residence of Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles...
Later the hotel-keeper's suspicions were aroused. The "wounded officer" suddenly shaved off his powerful, black mustache, glared with ill-concealed hostility at the Fascist crowds surging in the street, and seemed to take an interest in a powerful motor car loaded with extra gasoline tins, which mysteriously appeared in an alley behind the hotel. When the police were informed of these doings, they responded with grim enigmatic smiles. Later they declared that the details of the plot had been known to Signer Mussolini for weeks; that Tito Zaniboni and General Capello had long been carefully shadowed...
...Although motor stocks have led the recently advancing market, many speculators and business men continue to look upon the U. S. Steel Corporation as the permanent leader among industrial companies...
This situation in the opinion of Detroit, spells the most competitive year ahead in the history of the industry. It seems doubtful whether the public demand will absorb this greater production. The probability therefore is that the more popular and efficient motor producers will make further inroads upon their less favored competitors...