Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possible exception of a hitchhiking honeybee, the most exasperating thing in any motorist's life is to run out of gas. Last week President Coleman W. Roberts of the Carolina Motor Club reported that a survey of American Automobile Association garages showed that about 1,500,000 U. S. motorists ran out of gas on the road last year. This was half again as many as in 1935. Said Mr. Roberts: "The surprising thing about this record is that there are some 325,000 retail gasoline outlets in the nation, or approximately one for every mile...
Michigan was quiet. The Newton Steel Co. (subsidiary of Republic) plant re-opened by Mayor Knaggs of Monroe and his civilian army (TIME, June 21) remained unmolested by the angry union motor workers though they threatened to boycott its product...
...idea of appointing a Federal mediation board. She, a Joan of Arc to many a worker, was eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally and conversationally arbitrated the central issue of the steel war, unmistakably indicating the course that any mediation by his representatives would take. This was just one step short of the personal Presidential intervention which John Lewis wanted...
...when automobiling was a sport requiring goggles and a linen duster, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles...
Hammering headlines from the steel front (see p. 11) drove shares to new lows and near records for inactivity for the year. It was the first time since C. I. O. got into action that strike news has been a general market factor. The motor sit-downs last winter merely interrupted the market's upward climb and prices were later pushed to new recovery highs...