Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
Since there is "peace," China has been able to obtain U. S. loans (notably $25,000,000 last December from the Export-Import Bank), and to buy U. S. munitions, motor trucks, airplanes. Some economists and humanitarians maintain that Japan has gained more than China by being able to buy at will in the U. S., but Chiang Kai-shek presumably thinks otherwise for he could invoke the Neutrality Act by simply declaring war on Japan. Meanwhile, some two million people have been killed in China, and the U. S. has not been involved...
Twenty-two years later, still on the move (whenever Realtor Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...
...Gustav Egloff, ace researcher of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., last week revealed that he had devised a new way to make synthetic rubber from butane gas. Butane, used for heating, welding, motor fuel, is extremely plentiful and cheap. It is present in natural gas, is also a by-product in oil refining. Dr. Egloff estimates that from these sources 15 billion pounds of U. S. butane are available every year...
...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...