Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They thought her a female Ford. She always traveled by motor, in a long luxurious limousine, with a duplicate car following behind. "I have not an hour to lose on the road, in case of breakdowns," she would explain, "I say with the Americans, whose methods I follow, 'Time is money...
...swift enterprise. Young R. B. Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tenn., reorganized Command-Aire, Inc., only last October to make biplanes at Little Rock, Ark., to sell at $3,250. Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...
Some of the code provisions are striking indications of the competitive aspects of the oil business. There is a rule that "lotteries, prizes, wheels of fortune or other games of chance shall not be used in connection with the sales of gas and motor oils." And it is expressly stipulated that no oil company shall indulge in the practice of painting out the signs and colors of a competitor...
...Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...
British "General." Two makers of British cars are the Humber Co. and the Hillman Co. Last week they merged. Soon Humber-Hillman may unite with the Comer motor interests to form a British "General Motors," to compete with U. S. General Motors...