Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.), President Charles Alexander Richmond said: "We hear of the revolt of youth. ... It must be perfectly evident that we are becoming more and more dependent upon things, upon conveniences -falsely socalled. Motor cars are used to such a degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot...
Despite direful predictions which were made a year and even six months ago, the current year will go down as the most prosperous in history for motor manufacturers. In only a very few cases will the dollar profits of every leading producer fail to be the largest on record...
Curiously enough, the whole motor industry is now operating on Henry Ford's classic idea-that many small profits amount to more than a few large profits. Practically all motor companies have slashed their prices sharply. Never before did a dollar buy so much in automobiles as today. This universal move has been greeted by the public with a purchasing of motors which even the most optimistic scarcely thought possible one year ago. In the beginning (TIME, Jan. 12) the price slashing between motor companies seemed to point inevitably to elimination of the weaker companies, which is already...
...type. The hysteresis curve of the generator is taught, while personal experience brings to light the fact that from the professor down to the instructor there was no one who could answer the simple question as to how many volts are used in the operation of an apartment elevator motor...
...satisfied with crippling the street railways and furnishing active competition to the short-haul steam roads, the ever-growing motor industry is now beginning to appropriate the very tracks of the steam locomotive. It is likely that this invasion will never be crowned with complete success. Yet it is equally likely that the gasoline locomotive will in a few years be a familiar sight on branch lines of most U. S. railway systems...