Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock; a bank whose President and Chairman of the Board serve without pay; a bank charging only the " legal rate for interest on loans," without affiliated or subsidiary companies; in short, a " bank owned by the people at large," is the announced project of William C. Durant, spectacular motor financier. Its doors will open on 57th Street (near the tire and motor buildings of Broadway, Manhattan), and it will be known as " The Liberty National Bank...
...authorities of the New York Stock Exchange refused after due consideration to replace the shares of the Stutz Motor Car Co., cornered by Allan A. Ryan in 1920, in its list. After the corner Mr. Ryan was, however, forced by his subsequent bankruptcy to sell out his Stutz holdings, and the largest stockholder at the present time is Charles M. Schwab. The refusal of the Exchange was no reflection on the financial standing of the Company, but was forced by the usual policy of the Exchange in requiring stock issues to be well distributed before their entry upon...
Infantile paralysis is an infectious disease which attacks certain portions of the gray matter of the spinal cord, usually in children, inhibiting the motor action of the lower limbs. Comparatively little is known about it, although it has been the subject of exhaustive study since the great epidemic of 1916. Theories that it is spread by invisible discharges from the respiratory passages have not as yet been confirmed...
Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company: " 'It is not a matter of needing the business but of principle,' said I in announcing that I would seek a court injunction to restrain the City of Detroit from placing its order for 'police fliers' with the Cadillac Motor Co. Our Lincoln car won the speed tests conducted by the Division of Motor Transportation...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...