Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith's defeat. Like many great makers of money, he discovered, late in life, an interest in pictures. His first wife, who died in 1917, was made a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope; in 1920 his son, Allan Ryan, cornered the stock of Stutz Motor Car Co., and was expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times to retire from business but until last week he called frequently at the office he maintained in Manhattan, at the Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could have...
...agreed to pay 10% on United N. J. R. R.'s $20,876,800 outstanding capital stock. And dire would be the confusion should Pennsy break this Methuselean lease. Passengers from Philadelphia would climb out at the N. Y.-N. J. state line at Trenton, pray for motor lorries to carry them to Jersey City, whence they might proceed through Pennsy tunnels to Manhattan...
...course, they err. Señor Santos-Dumont was flying dirigibles when Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...
...motored plane was a system of double planes, resembling box-kites fastened one to another in the general shape of the letter T. A very light and powerful petrol motor drove two light propellers at high speed. The pilot sat at the juncture of the T. On its first recognized flight (in France) that Santos-Dumont T-plane flew 220 metres in 21 seconds...
...Orville Wright, at Kitty Hawk,* N. C., made the first airplane flight in history. His brother Wilbur who had helped him invent the motor and design the plane, watched him, nervous, confident and inquisitive, from the ground. An undertaker also stood by. Wilbur Wright died in 1912; but Orville Wright has lived...