Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words of a song which State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Charles A. Harnett distributed among 150 assorted businessmen, Broadway sports and has-been politicians who sailed down New York Harbor one morning last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York...
With everything from a cocktail to a new Scotch tart being named for Lady Alice Scott last week, the austere, technical voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
...Duke is said to be an even better driver than the Duke of Kent. At the Tidworth Tattoo, during an episode contrasting the modern motor bandit with Dick Turpin, the Duke drove the pursuing car. The thousands of spectators present cheered him wildly for his skill and speed, but not one of them guessed the identity of the driver...
...hope of evening up production, leveling out employment, extending the selling season. Automobile executives did not feel able to refuse the Administration's request after concessions made to them in the disputed Section 7A of the late NRA. With the early show and a pre-Christmas motor boom, fourth quarter sales may reach 900,000. Forecasts of 1936 production range from a modest 4,000,000 to a generous 4,500,000. The industry increased production 45% in 1934 over 1933, and will make nearly a 40% increase in 1935 over...
Ford profits, as usual, remain a mystery. This week Ford Motor Co. is bringing out a cut-rate Lincoln...