Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north and west of Cambridge, is the feature most opposed by Beacon St. organizations who claim that the drive would ruin the park. The answer to this objection is that no horns would be blown because there would be no cross streets and no pedestrians, and that motor cars on a smooth park road make little noise. The drive would be crossed by footbridges so that pedestrians would not be endangered. It seems unreasonable for a few residents on the Boston shore to insist that they be supplied with a rural park at their back doors. Great cities cannot provide...
...excuse for not riding ceremoniously from Buckingham Palace to St. James's Palace in the ornate state coach. The Prince lives in York House, which is really one wing of the intricate collection of buildings that make up St. James's Palace. He had been expected to motor to Buckingham Palace and ride back in the state coach. Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House to St. James's proper...
...Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them by sledge to the nearest railway station, Pechweke Peke...
...Fords held up production, but the new "Henri's" are now ready for the French market. La Journée Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor car production-both trucks and passenger cars-amounts to about 250,000 cars per year, whereas U. S. automobile makers expect a 1,000,000 increase over 1928 production, it is obvious that many a new Ford will be competing with Citroen sales...
Although it has been denied that Ford of France will be a subsidiary of Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other...