Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin people with matinee and evening tickets for the State Opera found that theoretically they could get their money back. Practically the entire Opera district was walled off by police, soldiers and Nazi troopers. Standing shoulder to shoulder down the curbstones, they formed living cordons between which the snorting motor cars of Reichswehr officers and Nazi leaders raced. Police and troops snapped to salute as sky-blue uniformed General Goring dashed up, beaming and bowing in response to cheers which a foreign correspondent described as "unuttered." (The writer was later rebuked by the Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment...
Piquant to firms like the English house which lists itself in London's telephone directory as "Rolls-Royce Ltd., Motor Chassis Manufacturer" and builds no bodies whatever, seemed the philosophy of U. S. automotive engineers as capsuled by President Stout: "The car must look right above all things. The machinery part is easy and does not even need to be worried about...
...Ford Motor Co. is a Delaware corporation. Its main plant-the most magnificent aggregation of industrial equipment in the modern world-is at River Rouge, Mich. At the start of last year it had assets of $639,000,000, over one-half of which was in cash or liquid paper. During the past 30 years it has sold more than 22,000,000 automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with...
Died. Edward Hillman, 45, head of Hillman Airways (London-Paris); of high blood pressure; at London. A homeless wanderer from the age of nine, a humble bicycle repairman five years ago, he developed a fleet of 200 motor coaches, an air fleet worth...
...opened up the ill-starred negotiations. The inexplicable "Jafsie" was able only "partially" to identify Hauptmann when first confronted with him. There is literally no telling what the 74-year-old retired Bronx school-teacher will do when he gets on the stand. Last fortnight he made a mysterious motor trip to West Palm Beach on business "connected with the case." He did the case no good when he told reporters there: "No one saw Hauptmann kill the baby. I don't think they can convict him." The doctor thought, however, that Hauptmann might be proven guilty of extortion...