Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve acres of gleaming motor vehicles -an intoxicating prospect for a one-time housepainter-stretched in broad expanse before Der Reichsführer. Eight thousand German cars, cycle-cars, motorcycles, delivery wagons and trucks reduced to insignificance some 40 foreign cars shown by Italian, British, French, Czechoslovak, Belgian and Austrian firms. Glum U. S. dealers in Berlin showed nothing, protested, "Dr. Schacht has cut our quota so low that it isn't worth while. There are ten Germans who want to buy American cars for every one we can sell them...
After taking the Nazi salute and drawing a deep breath Orator Hitler put all his simple heart into his loud Automobile Show Address: "I regard the motorization of Germany as the most important factor in our fight against un employment! . . . The German motor vehicle is not only the fastest but-we can say this pridefully-the best in the world. . . . Soon the Fatherland will be self-sufficient in motoring! I consider that the problem of synthetic fuel, like that of synthetic rubber, has been solved by German Science in principle. ... I point pridefully to our Party's record: four...
After Great-Hearted Adolf had departed amid pomp, Nazi motor manufacturers admitted that nothing cheaper than an $800 car is made in Germany. This, representing an investment of 2,000 marks, remains definitely beyond the reach not only of the Fatherland's "little man," but also of the Fatherland's average workman who earns, according to German statisticians, about six marks per day or barely 2,000 marks per year...
...rambling intricacy of testimony. Since Errett Lobban Cord had escaped the Committee's inquisition by going on a long yachting trip to the isles of Greece, the Committee seized as target for its questions Lucius Bass Manning, chargé d'affaires of Cord's motor, aviation and shipbuilding interests. Long ago Mr. Manning protested that it was just a happy coincidence when, the day after Mr. Cord announced acquisition of New York Shipbuilding Corp., that firm was awarded the biggest ($38,450,000) slice of the New Deal's naval contracts (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Last...
...finished 100 motor blocks in a unit time. Now 19 men finish 250 blocks in the same time...