Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Killed 50,310. Wounded 182,674.'' On the right was an accident scene with the legend: "PEACE-Motor Vehicle Accidents. 18 months ended June 20, 1935. Killed 51,200. Injured 1,304,000." Few days later Commissioner Valentine's daughter and two grandchildren were cut and bruised when their car collided with a parked truck in Mineola...
...miniature electric motor produces one one-millionth horsepower...
...would disappear from U. S. business life. Yet installment selling has withstood Depression better than most other economic devices of the Turbulent Twenties. Particularly has it held its own in the automobile business, as the earnings of two of the biggest automobile finance companies dramatically testify. While nearly every motor company sank into the red manufacturing cars. Commercial Investment Trust and Commercial Credit continued to make handsome profits from financing the sale of the same cars...
...machines, was coming from the East. Accordingly, one Saturday noon he piled his filing cabinets into an express car, his employes into a Pullman and the following Monday morning opened shop in Manhattan. Around 1920 Henry Ittleson became convinced that his business was leaning too heavily on the motor industry. He launched a program of diversification which took him into phonographs, vacuum cleaners, barber and beauty shop equipment, electric refrigerators, oil burners and finally into the textile factoring business. But he was not averse to increasing his automobile business by acquisition of Henry Ford's financing company, Universal Credit...
...mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife's leaving him. She accepted an impossible situation, gave him money, buried herself in War work. Upon his death he left her, as one last malicious joke, all his "houses, bonds . . . carriages, yachts, motor cars," except those in the U. S. and France-in other words, nothing but debts. Later his widow found his diary, understood for the first time that her witty, audacious, unscrupulous husband was homosexual...