Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing more dangerous than the poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble...
...Ahem," the Dolo went on, "yes, my friends, 'tis three score years and may I remind you this old world of ours has changed in many ways since that time. The motor has replaced the horse...
...Alden's father when indulging in collegiate monkeyshines; (this one is the revival of an old Med Fac legend.) Mario van der Weyer's abrupt departure from Harvard when he is surprised with a woman in his room in Claverley, even Oliver's death after the Armistice in a motor accident when he is killed because somebody else was on the wrong side of the read...
...motor car windshields are now made of safety glass and 21 states compel the use of safety glass in all passenger car windows. Libbey-Owens-Ford makes about 50% of U. S. window glass, but the window business has languished throughout Depression. Even in 1934, however, the company's window trade increased 41% over 1933. Should a real building boom materialize in 1936, what was once Libbey-Owens-Ford's only business will again become a major item...
...into safety glass through E. I. du Pont de Nemours, which made the binder, and for a while went 50-50 with the du Fonts in safety glass manufacture. In 1930 Pittsburgh bought out the du Pont interest. So, like Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh rode along with the motor boom and its 1935 earnings are estimated at about $8,250,000, as against...