Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motor lorry loaded with Green Police, followed by a limousine, made its way through Berlin to the Reichstag. Inside the limousine was a nervous, agitated man. One hour later Green Police and limousine made the return journey. Inside the car sat a man " wreathed in smiles": Chancellor Stresemann had been made Germany's first constitutional dictator by 316 votes to 24. Thus he joins the ranks of European dictators-Mussolini of Italy, Doktor von Kahr of Bavaria, Captain-General Primo Rivera of Spain, Colonel Gonatas of Greece, Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey...
...electric motor which, by harnessing the " idle " current in an alternating current, gives 30% to 50% more mechanical power and will save over $100,000,000 yearly if put into general use, was announced at the annual meeting of the Technical Section of the National Electric Light Association, at Omaha. It is the invention of Val A. Fynn and Hans Weichsel...
...automobile manufacturer to keep his plant going the year round, the closed car is very obviously no experiment, but a permanent fixture in the automotive industry. From comprising only 10% of the output of the industry in 1919, this type of car now represents 35% of annual production. Motor car leaders attribute this striking increase in closed models principally to their greater comfort in poor weather,their greater cleanliness at all times, their distinct economy in the long run, their generally better appearance. The increasing tendency for state officials to keep the main highways open the year round is also...
...Manhattan, an undertaker equipped his $19,875 motor hearse with five white-enameled wooden angels, a phonograph, a radio amplifier. He increased his business...
...moving pirate has raided the community. All that is needed to complete the picture is a black flag flying from the radiator of his motor truck. Careless undergraduates who left last spring with-out, making definite contracts to have their furniture moved are now being charged out of all reason. The work has been done and the contractor finds himself in a well-nigh impregnable position. He urges that he has fulfilled his contract, and that the time of payment is at hand...