Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took my brother J. Frank from the farm twice and pushed him from shop to shop until he was drawing toolmaker wages. Then hired him for more pay, to assemble my first horseless buggy. He worked for me or my company?the first incorporated in America to build gasoline motor vehicles?for five years. Their successes were due largely to his superior work. The 1896?97 model was mostly his design and the first SDs were close copies. Failing health caused him to retire...
Among Adolf Hitler's most passionate admirers are Germans who make motor cars. A zealous motorist, the Leader, in one of his first acts as Chancellor, started forcing motor sales by exempting new cars for two years from the crushing luxury tax which burdens pre-Hitler cars in Germany. Thus started a nationwide scramble to trade in old cars on which the tax for two years in some cases would exceed the value of the vehicle. Last week without alluding to this "forced sale" technique, the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment proudly announced: "Sales of motor cars in Germany...
...cream of Germany's motor boom was in sales to Nazi Party locals which lavishly bought cars "for official business" until checked by the blood purge and Herr Hitler's bullet-backed injunction: "The true Nazi must lead the simple life...
...miles, a dozen Tuscaroras and two Senecas jogged in relays carrying a little chamois bag holding three white grains of corn. From Fort Niagara, N. Y. to Washington, D. C., at hour intervals runner took the bag from runner, while 13 others followed in a motor bus, waited their turns...
...Capitol the last sprint began. Bird-Lying-Down carried the precious chamois bag. A crowd gathered at the South Gate of the White House grounds. Wearing loin cloths with disklike reflectors fore and aft, as protection against motor traffic, the 14 braves entered and jogged up the walk. In the silk-walled Blue Room the President received the naked Indians and the three kernels of corn inviting him to attend the peace celebration of the Six Nations at Fort Niagara on Sept. 3. He shook the Redmen's hands and said that he was sorry but he thought he could...