Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeronautics. "I experimented twelve years with my motor car before I was convinced that it represented a lasting and stable product for the public. I have now only started to experiment with the airplane. And let me tell you that the commercial airplane is as yet a considerable distance of being a success...
...airplane motor is still unreliable?a delicate, quivering mechanism. Its vibration is so intense that there is little guaranty under such strain that it will remain intact over considerable distances. The airplane game depends greatly at present upon the flying ability of the man in the pilot's seat. Our daily trips to Chicago and Cleveland are about 90% skill of the men at the throttle. Stunt flying, as I see it, is about 98% of the same element...
...Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!" Countered Mr. Bryan, himself a Miami, Fla., realtor: "You don't need to ask us about Miami...
...there were 3,617,602 motor cars and trucks produced in this country, possessing a wholesale value of $2,328,000,000 and a retail value of $2,900,000,000. It is estimated that 75% of this total was financed by time payments. Since "automobile paper" usually matures in a year and is payable in monthly installments, about one billion dollars was thus continuously employed...
...April, the Ford Motor Co. put into operation a freight airline between Detroit and Chicago (TIME, Apr. 20). For three months this line has worked successfully, carrying valuable freight at just under 10c a Ib. This week, the Ford interests started another line-one between Detroit and Cleveland. In the first plane was packed a knocked-down Ford automobile chassis, which, having arrived in Cleveland, was assembled on the field, driven...