Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eminent statistician some time ago announced that the United States could not run more than twenty million motor cars. For more than that number there would be no money, no gas, no room, and no need. The increasing number of fume-emitting motors, according to public health officials, has made the Americans a race of blood-poisoned nervous wrecks. The nation is already half saturated with cars, and last month more were made than in any previous month. What dauntless courage is fostered in Detroit to assert that every man, woman, child, and college student will throw away their...
...Ford in the Michigan State Senate, where he was quoted as planning to build a factory on every small waterpower site he can obtain in that state, and thus give winter employment to farmers at city wages, which all comes back to the fact that running the Ford Motor Company is one thing and courting the farmer vote is another. Mr. Ford is undoubtedly the world's premier automotive manufacturer. As the savior of the American farmer, however, his practical efficiency is yet to be established...
...again "breaking the road for the rest." They traveled for twenty-seven hours, covering a distance farther by almost a thousand miles than any one else has attempted in one flight. The speed of 110 miles an hour which they were forced to maintain put a strain on the motor which accmed suicidal. And it was necessary to travel through darkness, high above the clouds where charts both of land and of air were almost useless. In these strange air lanes they relied on the compass, the guide of every explorer in uncharted regions...
...must go "down to the sea in ships" he did not put more gas in his motor boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board...
...Ford Motor Company inaugurated some weeks ago a partial payment plan for the small car buyer, whereby, with the initial deposit of $5, funds could be saved to purchase a Ford...