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Word: motorize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tractors. Today the main streets of Moscow are just beginning to present a traffic problem, thanks to several thousand little cars closely resembling Ford sedans, all Soviet manufactured under the management of Old Bolshevik Dybets-kicked last week out of his job as Director of the All-Union Motor Car and Tractor Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Old Bolshevik & Big-Shots | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

From Oakland, Calif, he zipped to Fairbanks, Alaska in less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zavtra | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Mattern took off for Alaska with a Soviet Government contract in his pocket guaranteeing to pay for property lost while searching the Arctic for Commander Sigismund Levanevsky and his five companions, missing since their last faint wireless message flashed out August 13 as they were descending with one dead motor somewhere near the 48th meridian. No charge did Flyer Mattern make for his personal services because the same commander and the same crew rescued him from the Siberian Arctic four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Zavtra | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Most of the 2,500 existing doodlebugs have a 75-inch wheelbase, as compared to the 105-inch average of standard racing cars, weigh from 600 to 1,000 lb. The original midget cars were crude affairs powered by motorcycle engines, later by outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doodlebug Derby | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds of 10,000 the past summer. His customary 83-cent top he boosted to $3.30 for last week's derby. Like his colleagues. Promoter Zeiter makes every driver sign a waiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doodlebug Derby | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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