Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously, the railroads' greatest competitor voluntarily reduced its rates to new lows. Through the National Association of Motor Bus Operators, all the major Eastern bus lines announced they would at once cut their fares below the railroad's basic 2? a mile. Old bus fares were about 2? a mile. The new schedule ranges from 1.25? to 1.75?. In addition, the busses will retain their present 10% reduction for round-trip tickets-a privilege the railroads are abandoning. Under the new fares, a salesman scurrying about the nation by bus will pay $3 instead of $3.50 to ride...
...history of intercollegiate sports has any type of competition made such rapid strides toward popularity as outboard motor boat racing. When the starting gun echoes across the James River at Richmond, Va., next June 27 and 28 in the seventh annual National Intercollegiate Outboard Championships, more than forty universities and preparatory institutions will be represented...
...learn a touch code may read any book he chooses. After it is adjusted for proper spacing, a scanner supported on tiny rollers moves back & forth across the printed page examining one letter after another in rapid succession. The light passes through a lens, thence to a slotted, motor-driven disk which analyzes the shape of the letter. Then a photo-electric cell converts the light into electric current. The reader places his hand on a wooden box so that it rests against a row of nine small glass beads. The electric current causes tiny rods to push up momentarily...
...Chicago, the new All American Motor Freight Lines, recently capitalized at $1,000,000, asked the I. C. C. for permission to buy seven truck lines for $96,000, announced it will soon apply for permission to buy five more for $400,000. All American plans to confine itself to the Midwest for the time being...
...splendidly. After a preliminary luncheon Mr. Ford, full of ideas about soy beans which he raises and puts into his cars in large quantities, tossed off a few quotations for the Press. "The plastic field is the greatest in the industrial world today," said the aging motor manufacturer. "The farm will furnish the automobile body of the future...