Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce grants prime importance in the community. President Clement Melville Keys, who has every one of his fingers in some aviation pie or other, and Vice President C. Roy Keys, his brother, have made Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor one of the largest self-contained units of the industry. Almost all present aircraft concerns make only planes, buy their motors elsewhere. Curtiss manufactures motors as well as ships. Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts. In motors it builds the powerful Challenger...
Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Co. (Charles Ward Hall, president), G. Elias & Bro., Inc. (A. J. Elias, president), and Eberhart Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc. (Cleburne Eberhadt, Jr., president), have produced little so far but are experimenting much...
...Hurricanes (typhoons sea cyclones) reach 150 m. p. h., tornadoes (land cyclones) 300 m. p. h. Conservative calculations estimate the force of a hurricane at more than 100 billion horsepower. The 1926 Miami hurricane is calculated to have had enough power to run every dynamo, motor and steam engine in the world for 20 years...
...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
...Level the walls of Ancient Nanking as the walls of Paris were leveled in the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) and lay out on their foundations a "Parisian" circle of boulevards 150 feet wide; 4) Construct throughout China 20,000 miles of railway, 10,000 miles of motor highways, and literally innumerable flood control works and civic buildings in the provinces...