Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. of Toledo reported 1935 earnings of $8,167,000 compared to $3,161,000 in 1934. Like many another 1935 recovery, the improvement in Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. depended largely on the 1935 boom in the motor industry. Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh Plate Glass make some 90% of U. S. plate glass. They split this lion's share about evenly, 'but Libbey-Owens-Ford is the leader in safety glass production. Safety glass is made by sticking two ordinary sheets of glass together with a plastic binder. When struck, safety glass...
Like those of the Automobile Show, which precedes it every year, Motor Boat Show pressagents labor under the delusion that their exhibits are recommended largely by novelty. Consequently, last week, they made it their business to pretend that streamlining and comfortable living quarters, principal selling points of motor boats for years, had just been discovered this winter. Actually the main novelties of the show were, as usual, gadgets. Samples...
...electric outboard motor ($35.50, 3 m. p. h.), guaranteed silent...
...anchor-weighing contraption ($500) wherewith, by stepping on a pedal, a yachtsman starts a motor to raise his anchor...
...exciting feature of the Motor Boat Show was, as usual, missed by everyone who bought tickets last week: the arrival of the boats. Most alarming voyage to this year's show was that of the Wheeler Shipyard's 56-ft. Playmate. Lost in the fog for four hours during its water passage from the Wheeler Yards in Brooklyn to its docks in Manhattan, the Playmate was finally hoisted out of the water onto a 30-ton truck. The job took 40 minutes, cost $1,200. Last year, after measuring an elevated railway crossing and deciding it was just...