Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James A. Logan, American observer abroad, who has peeped for the U. S. at many important diplomatic conferences in Europe, announced his resignation and his affiliation with Dillon, Read & Co., recent purchasers of the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Co. (TIME, Apr. 13, 20, May 4, BUSINESS). Two weeks ago, Col. Logan and Clarence Dillon went abroad on the same ship...
...innovation in the way of locomotion is to be tried this spring, if plans which are now being worked on can be perfected. A large motor bus, hired for the trip, will in all probability take the Harvard delegates to the conference...
Later, in the early hours of the morning, the Majestic steamed down the bay and out to sea with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing...
...Most of the five put practically nothing into the business; in 1920, they paid for their stock with notes, paid off the notes with subsequent dividends. It is said in Detroit that Wardell's sudden rise to wealth has been more rapid even than that of the early motor kings. Mr. Wardell himself claims distinction not only for having rung doorbells in every state in the union, but also for having rung more of them than any other human being...
...once subscribed-enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was made as an executive of the Hudson Motor Car Co. Probable Chairman of the Board is Harold H. Emmons, automotive man of equal standing and one of the fathers of the Liberty motor. Clement M. Keys, President of the famed Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman of the Executive Committee. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henderson (TIME, Nov. 3), in charge...