Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week ornate Buckingham Palace guardsmen raised their chins at a sound louder than the blare of their brass band which was just thumping out a change of the guard. Through a low-hanging cloud, with his motor back firing like a machine gun, slithered Flying Officer F. Smith's plane, falling directly toward the Palace. To Airman Smith the royal standard fluttering on Buckingham's staff showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff...
...high in radio advertising was reached a month ago when Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co. started Leopold Stokowski and his Philadelphia Orchestra broadcasting six nights a week for Chesterfield cigarets (TIME, Nov. 27). This week Cadillac Motor Cars and Lucky Strike cigarets overtook Chesterfields. Cadillac started a rich symphonic series for Sunday nights (6 to 7 E. S. T.). Bruno Walter conducted the first concert, Jascha Heifetz fiddled. Conductors to come: Artur Bodanzky, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Reiner, Sir Henry Wood...
...gospelers for their infant industry, Australians insisted last week that if U. S. citizens are denied the delights of Australian Para Port, Michenbury Sparkling Burgundy and Chateau Tanunda Brandy, then Premier Lyons must restrict by quota the import into Australia of U. S. motor cars. Premier Lyons, calmer than most of his fellow citizens, made no open threats, quietly approached President Roosevelt through diplomatic channels as one "good neighbor'' to another...
Early next month when all automobile makers begin exhibiting their new cars in 1934's motor shows, Henry Ford will not be among them. He does not exhibit at such shows. But last week he invited a bevy of newshawks to his engineering laboratory at Dearborn, to the Dearborn Inn, served them lunch with beer, showed them his 1934 model...
...models, but the 1933 model with improvements. Chief changes: 1) a new dual intake manifold to the carburetor to increase mileage 2½ mi. to the gallon, increase speed from 82 to 87 m.p.h., increase power 12%, improve pickup; 2) automatic thermostat that prevents warm water from the motor circulating through the radiator until the engine has warmed up, thereby improving cold weather starting; 3) windows that move not only up and down, but also slightly sideways to provide a slit for draftless ventilation; 4) a more stylish radiator grill; 5) increases of $5 to $35 in the prices...