Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average run of British motor accidents-about 150 per week-provided Major Hore-Belisha with a terrific TRAFFIC CRISIS. Dashing about to inspect the terrain on which no citizen's life could be considered safe, the major was photographed on his motorcycle as a sort of Mussolini of Motoring. He decreed barber-striped safety islands and chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns...
...declared M. Doumergue. Thereupon the old man adopted remarkable precautions in returning last week to his estate at Tournefeuille in the south of France. To avoid demonstrations of affections for himself and possible violence to his enemies in Paris, M. and M'me Doumergue left their home by motor at 3:45 a.m., carried sandwiches so that they need stop at no restaurant on their 325-mile drive...
...Moscow last week, as Dictator Stalin considered President Roosevelt's reputed offer, were aggressive President Vincent Bendix of Bendix Corp. (airplane equipment, automobile starters, brakes); General Motors Vice President T. W. Tinkham; White Motor Truck Vice President Colonel Everett Gardner; and representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp., ace builders of battle planes. Though Washington spoke of Red orders for U.S. heavy industry, the supersalesmen actually in Moscow last week all seemed to offer equipment to motorize the Red Army against Japan...
...Owen treats substantially three problem of highway costs and cost allocation, and the question of motor vehicle taxation. In connection with the first group he illuminates the matter by viewing a highway as a production plant turning out a commodity--vehicle miles types of problems: those connected with the production of highway services, the and presenting much the same problems of size, location, and production process, i.e., type of road construction, as economists are accustomed to deal with in their theory of production. So neatly is this done is fact that the question arises whether, perhaps, the aualogy...
...section on Motor Vehicle Taxation finds the author battling vigorously and, on the whole, successfully against the waves of propaganda launched by railway and automotive interests. He is able to show conclusively the nature of the mistakes made by both groups in their respective answers to the question "who pays the cost of road building and maintenance?" It appears clearly from the analysis "that motor vehicle taxes are not taxes at all, and that traffic on the highways is largely government subsidized." Nevertheless the question whether the vehicle highway plant is in the same position as the highway plant...