Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully equipped except for the minnenwerfers. The men were supplied with slings for the latest one-man machine guns, but the weapons themselves were not visible. An air of reality was given to the sham fight by the dashing cavalry and by the motor cycle messengers. The Fascista organization is so strong in Bavaria that the Federal authorities are unable to check the movement, which has now established itself openly as a political force. Adolf Hitler, replying to charges made against him by the Munich Post, said: "I have never combatted the republican democratic...
...Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, and Cleveland, such firms as Procter and Gamble, the National Cash Register Company, the Timpkins Coal Company, the Libby-Owen Glass Company, the Toledo Ship Building Company, and the Goodrich Tire Company will be inspected. From Cleveland to Boston the itinerary includes the White Motor Company at Cleveland, the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, the Dutchess Bleachery at Wappingers Falls, the American Brass Company and the Winchester Arms Company, both at Bridgeport...
...ornamental at the expense of utility, say a number of prominent psychologists, including Dr. Raymond Dodge, Dr. Shepherd I. Franz and Dr. R. M. Yerkes, who have been studying the problem. Large white globes waste two-thirds of their illumination up- wards, are injurious to the eyes, endanger motor traffic. Properly di-rected lights would make the roadways and sidewalks stand out more clearly. Albert Einstein, the German, arriving at Kantara, Egypt, after a trip to Japan with his wife, announced that he had made a new discovery which may create a greater sensation than his theory of relativity...
There are registered in the United States 12,238,375 motor vehicles of various sorts, 10,000,000 of which are passenger cars...
...fleets have recently appeared off the Atlantic coast, one last week from Scotland hovering outside New Jersey, and one in the last few days from the West Indies sailing for Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full...