Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great crowds gathered in streets of San Juan, of Rio Piedras, of many a village and hamlet throughout Puerto Rico last week. They had but one purpose: to stop all motor traffic. They scattered tacks, nails, scraps of iron, pieces of glass over the pavements. Automobiles that did not disappear prudently into driveways were attacked by gangs who drove nails into their tires, smashed their windshields with bricks. Thus, from end to end of their island, Puerto Ricans struck against the high price of gasoline...
...Mont, long distance operator called Dr. David T. Berg to the telephone. "Lincoln is calling." Dr. Berg waited. "These is Pete Clausen talking. My wife is having a baby. . . ." Lincoln was 55 mi. away over snowed-under roads. Outdoors was -20°. Dr. Berg bundled himself well, started to motor to the case. Thirty miles out of Helena 6-ft. snow drifts blocked his car. He secured a tractor, arrived at the accouchement with 15 minutes to spare...
...Year of the Sheep. 1932 the Year of the Monkey. U. S. automobile men, who produced 5,621,000 cars in 1929, might have little objection to these names: 1930 (3,510,000 cars) was comparatively a year for the horse; 1931 (2,472,000 cars) left the motor industry looking rather sheepish; 1932 (1,431,000 cars) made monkeys of those who had high hopes for an automobile comeback. To the Chinese, 1933 was the Year of the Cock, but U. S. motormen would have the right to insist that it was the Year of the Automobile...
...this was fortunate for motormen not only from the standpoint of profits but of privileges. The motor industry has become the prize pupil in Franklin D. Roosevelt's school of Recovery. The growth of automobile business helps to relieve unemployment, helps to keep the steel mills busy, helps to use up the surplus of gasoline, helps to make profits for manufacturers of tires and many another accessory. For all these things the Administration is thankful. Some of its gratitude was publicly acknowledged last month when the automobile code came up for renewal. Motormen were determined to continue the merit...
Ranged in cases around the hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...