Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each year it takes to run Northwestern's Traffic School, the automobile industry supplies $25,000; the Kemper Foundation (insurance) $10,000; Northwestern University $5,000 and campus quarters; the balance comes from the International Association of Chiefs of Police whose safety division is also supported by the motor industry. Kreml, still an active lieutenant on the Evanston force, is permanently detailed on professor's salary to the school. Long abandoned is the motorcycle; Lieutenant Kreml drives a Terraplane to school through the streets he helped make safe...
After two years on the force, Evanston let him install his own bureau, instruct brother officers in his methods of checking accidents. So loyally did his city stand behind him that, in spite of an increase in automobiles, Evanston's motor death rate in nine years dropped from 21.8 per 100,000 to 2.9. In 1932 Kreml organized what later became Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute in which police officers from all parts of the U. S. enroll in two courses, one general course of two weeks, the other a full university term from October to June...
...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...
...theory. They removed half of their cat's hind brain thus preventing radiation of stimuli, and touched the sound half with an electric current. This time the cat slowly raised only the foreleg on the stimulated side, slowly put it down. Patient Drs. Clark & Ward are seeking other motor centres...
...automobile in volume of sales last year was Chevrolet. This year Ford, less hamstrung by Labor than was General Motors, regained the lead. This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before. Last week it was announced that for the first time since 1929 automobiles and parts rate as No. 1 U. S. export. In Detroit, employment approached the 1929 peak. In Manhattan, the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that production of 1937 models had totaled...