Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months ago Henry Ford, through his Shanghai representative Thomas Lowry, put substantially this proposition to the Nationalists: "If I pay you in advance the customs dues on Ford cars to be shipped to China during the next five years, will you spend the money to build a modern motor highway between Shanghai and your new capital, Nanking?" (125 miles...
Naturally such an offer was not sneezed at by the heads of a State both young and poor. With wily tact the Motor Man then and there employed several hundred Chinese at his Detroit works. By the time they are fully trained a new Ford assembling plant will be ready to receive them at Shanghai...
...cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh, MacDonald was no veteran air-mailman, parachute-jumper, stuntist. Last May MacDonald made one round trip from England to India, having had 10 hours' previous solo flying. Said the New York World: ". . . harebrained effort . . ."; said the United Press: ". . . a great sporting gesture...
...Henry tells the one and only lucky typewriter mistake. "Her typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...
Building. Walter Percy Chrysler has just gained the head of the third greatest motor company by the Chrysler-Dodge merger. He is less individualistic than Mr. Ford, yet is mighty proud of his success and reputation. Last week he started selling mortgage bonds (through S. W. Strauss & Co.) on what will be the tallest building-in Manhattan or the world. It will contain 68 stories, and be 808 ft. high. It will, of course, be called the Chrysler Building and is Mr. Chrysler's personal venture...