Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtice a loyal New Year's greeting, following up a similar Christmas message sent by 1,400 transmission plant workers. But in the automobile industry's complex production mechanism, withdrawal of a few key workmen is just as paralyzing as withdrawal of a few parts from a motor. Overshadowed by the steel campaign, U. A. W. has spent $200,000 on organizing motors in the past six months. Asked last week how manv members he had won. President Martin confidently replied: "Enough to do business with...
Some Europeans still believe that there are wild Indians in Indiana and buffaloes in Buffalo. Most Europeans still believe that Chicago's streets echo daily with gangster gunfire. No such ignoramus is Emile E. C. Mathis, French motor car tycoon who has visited the U. S. many times. Last week he and handsome Mme Mathis were in the U. S. again. One evening in Manhattan they made a gay night of it at swank restaurants and night clubs, winding up with scrambled eggs & coffee at famed Reuben's ("That's All") all-night restaurant on 58th Street...
...Baron Nuffield of Morris Motors, "the Henry Ford of Great Britain/' last week gave $10,000,000 into the hands of three private trustees "to give practical shape to current expressions of good will toward King George and at the same time do anything I can to support the National Government, particularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.'' Seated on a platform at Oxford University recently, plain Lord Nuffield. who grew up in Oxfordshire from bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school...
...transcontinental motor trip to Hollywood, Gladys Cecil Georgina Lady Guernsey, mother of the cinemastruck Earl of Aylesford, paused at Dallas, had 18 pairs of shoes, four suitcases full of clothes and two sable wraps worth $25,000 stolen from her parked...
Looking like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...