Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford Motor Co.'s statement for the calendar year of 1924 showed some rather impressive changes over that for the year previous. Total assets at the close of last year amounted to $644,624,468, compared with $568,101,639 a year earlier. Most of this advance is contained in the item "real estate, equipment, etc.," which increased between the two statements from $180,789,490 to $227,120,617. The "cash" item was also up from $251,173,583 to $265,723,525, but as goodwill, trademarks, receivables, etc., are lumped under this head...
Bicycles. Before the 21st Annual Convention of the Cycle Trades of America, at Manhattan, rose De Witt Page, a vice president of the General Motors Corporation, to tell the assembled sellers of man power two-wheelers how the four-wheeled motor is actually pushing their sales. "Many of my friends," said Mr. Page, unsmiling, "now find parking conditions so intolerable that they ride on bicycles to their offices. . . The automobile has made suburban life possible. In the suburbs children can and do ride bicycles in safety. In nearly all of the fashionable girls' colleges and preparatory schools there...
...there are four leading bus making companies- International Harvester, Mack Trucks, White Motor, Pierce Arrow. Smaller makers include subsidiaries...
...huge foreign motor car of primitive design, roaring by night through the streets of New Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...
High up on the Pampas, a ranch which no bull's hide by any Carthaginian will could circle. . . A palace. . . Moving toward it a cavalcade of peons wearing sombreros, embroidered shirts, silver- studded belts, mounted on caballas . . . In a motor, a decorous Prince. It continued to be said that the Prince would be instructed by his royal parents to visit the West Indies, and that in consideration of this additional service rendered, he would be permitted a week on Long Island before going home...