Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hiked the quarterly dividend from $1 to $1.50 after the company reported $11,453,000 for the first three months of 1936, its second biggest quarter right on top of its all-time quarterly record in the final three months of 1935. For the first time since 1932 Nash Motors Co. made a profit ($72,000) in the first quarter of its fiscal year (through February). With its "Baby" eight going into its second year, Packard Motor Car Co. showed profits of $1,248,000 as against a loss of about the same amount for the first quarter...
Trucks with an average registration gain of 25% over the 1935 quarter showed even a better record than passenger cars, which as a whole rose 22%. After 65 consecutive profitless months, White Motor Co. went into the black with registrations spurting 76% over the first quarter last year. After losing $187,000 in the first period of 1935, Mack Trucks, Inc. cashed in on general sales gains to the extent of earning...
Clearly evident in March quarter motor figures was the trend toward medium and high-priced cars. Low-priced makes gained only 16% compared to a 41%, rise for all others. Though still holding more than 90% of the market, the Big Three (Ford, General Motors and Chrysler) had their slice of the market pared slightly, independents gaining more than the general average. Furthermore, Ford safes fell off 24% from the same period last year. Ford's slump nearly cost the Man of Dearborn second place in the industry, reducing his margin over Chrysler to a bare 6,400 units...
...Motor Habits-the way people use their bodies-seem to be closely linked with the biological makeup. They are fairly uniform over wide areas. The American Indian cuts by drawing the knife toward himself; the African native cuts away from himself, like a New England whittler. Postures and gesticulations are good indicators of motor habits. To sort out cultural from biological factors, therefore, Dr. Boas made motion pictures of conversational gestures of different nationalities, projected the frames slowly one after another, translated the movements. Typical findings...
...young of immigrants who move out of the family orbit change their motor habits completely, begin to gesture like those in the new environment. Mixed marriages may alter the gestures of the spouses. Even in the same country motor habits are not stable. The British, for example, have not always manifested their present immobility. In Elizabethan times they gestured violently. Dr. Boas' conclusion from all this is direct and simple : motor habits are cultural, not biological...