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Word: motorize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buhl Foundation Housing Project of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Wright holds the opinion that row houses in small units are preferable to struggle family houses for low-cost housing. He was in charge of the site planning of Radburn, the so-called "New Town for the Motor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Wright to Speak at City Planning School Today | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water, "you and Mrs. Ford are having dinner with us tonight." Thus just a year after General Hugh Johnson had heatedly announced that neither the Ford Motor Co. nor anyone else could safely defy his Blue Eagle, Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford were warmly welcomed by the chieftain of the New Deal. To newshawks who clustered around him in the street, Edsel Ford reiterated that the Ford Company had not signed certificates of NRA compliance, reiterated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Hospitality | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...half-ton truck bought from Northwest Motor Co., Ford dealer in Bethesda, Md. Although he furnished a certificate of his own compliance, the dealer's previous bids on similar contracts were rejected because Ford would not sign a similar certificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Hospitality | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Studebaker Corp. was not the first motor casualty of Depression but it was by far the biggest. The venerable South Bend, Ind. concern which Clem and Harry Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Studebaker Up & Out | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...White Motor will be segregated from Studebaker, its stock being used in part to pay off Studebaker bondholders and creditors. Balance of the claims will be met with common stock in a new Studebaker Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Studebaker Up & Out | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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