Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business, where such a course was justifiable at all, expressed a preference for Federal over State or local jurisdiction. The Chamber urged that a transportation system in the United States, commensurate with the country's needs, be developed by the coordination and expansion of railroad lines, waterways and motor truck routes. The virtue of the Chamber's resolutions lay in their eminently sound common sense, their weakness in their vague and inclusive nature. The result was much more sincere than a political party platform, but in some respects hardly more concrete...
Railways. The topic of transportation was especially dwelt upon during the convention. Several discussions can perhaps be set down as essentially propaganda of the legitimate sort; a gentleman from Missouri, for example, urged the improvement of our inland waterways, while a motor manufacturer stressed the importance of the motor truck, and a railroad president stated the grievances and trials of the railways. Nevertheless, a deep impression was made when a policy of fair play for the railroads was successively urged by a farmer (0. E. Bradfute, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation), a labor union representative (W. N. Doak...
...Rover Boys and the Motor Boys have been a trifle outmooded by the Aeroplane Boys and they in turn by the Radio Boys. Time passes, and doubtless we soon shall see a series on The Boys from Mars. Boys of various descriptions have already passed through nearly every prominent American college, real or fictitious, in any number of volumes...
...country of forests, ravines and canyons, treacherous air currents, and at one point flew most dangerously between the walls of a deep canyon. Yet they pronounced their flight " humdrum," and landed in perfect condition-except for hearing slightly affected by the continuous roar of the motor...
...doubt remained as to Mr. Ford's ability to finance his own way, it has been speedily removed by the recent financial statement of the Ford Motor Company, Inc., as of February 28, 1923. This statement showed total assets of $536,351,939, of which almost one-third (or $159,605,687) consisted of cash in the treasury. No other corporation in the world has so much cash in its treasury as this, not excepting the U. S. Steel Corporation, which has total assets over four times as great as the Ford Motor Company...