Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their...
...Duchess' car left the gates, a man standing on the sidewalk raised a sawed-off shotgun, fired wildly. Thinking the noise to be a motor backfiring, the Duchess drove on. Policemen, summoned by a motorist, found the man sitting on the pavement beside his shotgun and a racing bicycle on which he had arrived. As all London buzzed with the attack on the popular, pretty Duchess, wife of the youngest brother of Britain's King George VI, Scotland Yard announced that its prisoner had just arrived in London from Australia, where the Duke of Kent...
...Ford Motor Co. has long had only three directors, Father Henry Ford (see p. 50), Son Edsel Ford, Vice President P. E. Martin. Last week it announced the election of a fourth: Grandson Henry Ford II, guitar-playing son of President Edsel Ford who is to be graduated next year from Yale...
...strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include 734,000 tractor drivers, 165,000 combine operators, 124,000 chauffeurs. Last year rural districts bought 225,000 tons of household soap, 82,000,000 Ibs. more than they bought the year before. They bought 73,000 more tons of confectionery, spent 104,000,006 rubles...
...making $3,000 to $4,000 a year selling Fords and Maxwells. When Glenn began making gliders in his garage, Father Martin's eyebrows raised. When Glenn rented an abandoned Methodist church, locked the doors, painted the windows and, with a whittled propeller and a Ford Model N motor, began to construct an airplane, his alarmed father thought Glenn had taken leave of his senses...