Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President insisted that information of his serious condition should not reach the country for fear of the disturbances it might cause. A conference of physicians was called and they agreed that Mr. Wilson was suffering from a thrombosis on the right side of the brain which paralyzed his motor and sensory muscles on the left side of his body. For a week his life was in jeopardy. Then a gradual recovery began. He was never unconscious. His indomitable will and active mind persisted...
...meanwhile the consumption of crude oil and its byproducts, continued to increase. The huge production of automobiles demanded greater amounts of gasoline than ever. Large office buildings and hotels have adopted oil heating systems. Some railroads not only burn oil in their large locomotives, but are taking up running motor engines on their spur tracks for short haul traffic. Unless new oil fields are opened, the large stocks now overhanging market will be diminished, prices will rise, and a period of prosperity in oil industry will follow. Already this tendency is discernible in the advancing prices in the Midcontinent...
...horsepower aeroplane motor is being installed at the Newell Boathouse to keep the water in the tank in motion. The management hopes in this way to make the blade work for the oarsmen a little more natural. The work on the motor will be completed this week...
Automobiles. Prof. Howard R. Mayberry, of the psychology department, University of Chicago, has devised a test for applicants for motor licenses, consisting of control devices directing the movements of a toy automobile through the streets of a model city. The candidate must avoid traffic jams...
...railway strike of 1919, when volunteer forces succeeded in smashing the movement, volunteers are being organized to run the railways and a huge volunteer motor transport service was ready to supply effective aid in no small measure to the cities of England which are most in need...