Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flitted silently into Washington one eventide, were met by Secretary Hughes and assistants. After stopping at their hotel, they were spirited by an automobile, the world unknowing, to the White House. There they dined with the Coolidges, and Mr. Kellogg presented, informally, a hopeful view of European politics. Another motor car spirited them away. Not until the next day did the press discover that he had supped with the President...
Detroit is a city of great manufacturing executives. None of them is greater than Alvan Macauley, President of the Packard Motor Car Co. A great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face, a steady eye and a firm handshake, he combines perfect business efficiency with imagination and public spirit* At the present moment, the Packard Company may make tens of thousand of excellent automobiles per annum, but the production of a few super-motors for the Air Services pleases Mr. Macauley a great deal more...
...horsepower locomotive may weigh 20 or 30 tons. A small Ford motor weighs over 200 pounds and develops only 25 horsepower or so. The Liberty motor weighs 873 pounds for its 400 horsepower, i. e. a little over two pounds per horsepower. The great object of the aero-engine design is to achieve the truly wonderful goal of one pound per horsepower. This is almost attained by the two new Packard motors, descriptions of which have just been made public by Mr. Macauley. The smaller of the two develops 500 horsepower at 2,000 revolutions per minute and weighs...
...enterprise involved had been a new motor plant, the news of Mr. Ford's activities as banker and investor might have attracted no attention. Railroads, however, are in a class apart, no matter who owns them. Permission to increase railroad capital or debt must be respectfully submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for its approval. On the docket of that body, therefore, will shortly come up the request of Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. that he be permitted to sell $1,181,000 of the roads's 5% bonds to Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer...
...Manhattan, Henry L. Doherty, financier, lives in a bungalow atop a skyscraper,* sleeps in the open air. One morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses in a warm room, climbs pajamaed into bed, presses a button, the bed slides out to the roof, an automatic door opening before it, closing behind it. Financier Doherty awakes, presses a button, the bed crawls into his room, the door clicks, he dresses...