Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one statesman has ever made the motor vehicle and everything connected with it a major plank in his political platform : Adolf Hitler. The Nazis have made almost a national festival out of Berlin's annual Automobile Show. Last week it opened with loud speakers boasting in every corner of the Fatherland that since the Führer took over the Government in 1933 the number of motorcars in Germany has increased from 548,700 to 1,108,500, motor trucks from...
Several foreign highway commissions have recently-reported with admiration on the 1.250 miles of Nazi-built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer...
...ingenious contraption makes playing a tune like Annie Laurie almost as simple as swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master...
What had brought steel prices down, however, was apparently something more realistic than a desire to placate Mr. Roosevelt. Hudson Motor Car Co. is supposed to have got a substantial reduction for steel for its new low-priced" car. General Motors is said to have ordered 5,000 tons from Republic Steel as soon as the low price could be made effective. Steel production for the week rose only from 30%' to 31% of capacity, but Cleveland's statistical Colonel Leonard P. Ayres declared: "These developments terminate what was a kind of deadlock in business. From...
...automobile concern which was found guilty of violating the national labor relations act by the Labor Board was (1 Chrysler Motors, 2 General Motors, 3 Packard, 4 Ford Motor Co., 5 Studebaker...