Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, according to Schacht intimates, the Economics Minister & Reichsbank President has finally had to tell the German Government that in his opinion the sums being spent in Rearmament and on public works, party buildings and motor speedways throughout Germany must be drastically curtailed if the Reich is to keep up even its present show of Capitalist economy and stable money. The situation seemed to be last week that Herr Hitler remains no economist, and that Colonel Gőring will stop at nothing short of an actual crackup in his resolve to complete Germany's present Four-Year...
...William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Last spring, Anne Clark went to Harvard's commencement with John Roosevelt. Last week, she was on hand at Hyde Park to welcome him home. Before reporters got a chance to ask him about the romance, he and Anne Clark set off to motor to Boston. John Roosevelt's ostensible business was to arrange for a room for his senior year at Harvard, but three days later, Mrs. Clark announced that her daughter and John Roosevelt were engaged. Said she: "They will not be married until after he graduates." At Hyde Park, news...
...times, partly because "Mitch" discovered that numbers of wealthy Ontario families have been systematically cheating on the Province's stiff inheritance taxes for years and forced them to disgorge. The active Premier has abolished the amusement tax, extended pensions to the blind and allowances to mothers, and lowered motor license fees...
...time Bowman got to Tampico a local group had already started a steam laundry, so he bought a little motor boat to pull barges. When this enterprise failed, he and another young American chugged off to Veracruz, conceived the idea of revolutionizing the mahogany trade by floating mahogany logs down the rivers to the Gulf. The two adventurers struggled for several days getting a mahogany log out of the forest into a small stream, where, since mahogany is heavier than water, it immediately sank...
Until recently Hamilton has had a virtual monopoly of the propeller business. Lately, however, it and its most formidable rival, famed old Curtiss-Wright Corp., have been seeking another propeller improvement-full feathering of the blades. Curtiss-Wright devised an electric motor which nestles in the hub of the propeller and changes the pitch to any angle from o° to 90° whenever the pilot wishes. If an engine fails, the pilot merely adjusts the propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This...