Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford Motor Co. is a one-man concern, just as much as any little business that you know of which makes $10,000 a year...
...Synthol." The Du Font interests would manufacture, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. distribute, a new synthetic motor fuel to be called "synthol," made from coal, petroleum or lignite. To burn synthol, a new automobile motor had been devised, the most powerful of its size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said...
...motor competition is entering still another phase, with drastic price cuts by Buick and Studebaker. Makers are now divided into two classes: those who manufacture their car parts, and those who assemble parts purchased from other concerns. Naturally, production costs of the first group are regularly under those of the second- a fact which is now beginning to spell disaster for assembling companies. Recent Studebaker advertising directed public attention to just this situation. Apparently the process of the big fish eating the little fish is to be resumed with increased force...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...pleasant, upon a sunny day, to motor the 26 mi. between Paris and Corbell; not so pleasant on a rainy day; still less pleasant to walk. But to swim from Corbell to Paris in the dirty brown Seine, famed swimming-pool for suicides-to swim at 2 in the morning, with the water algid, and rain stabbing the darkness...