Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your July 5 issue you state, "Management Consultant John Diebold invented the very word automation." According to our best information, the word automation was first used by Mr. Del Harder, now retired but formerly vice president, manufacturing, of the Ford Motor Co. Mr. Harder is credited with coining the word automation to describe the way Ford was manufacturing automatically...
...suppose the intelligent thing to have done would have been to be a little more false and flowery," groused Stirling Moss, 33, after Acton (West London) Chief Driving Examiner Cyril Smith flunked him in his bid to renew a lapsed motor-scooter license. But he could still buzz around with the red "L" learner plates on the purple scooter. And there went the retired auto-racing champion, looking pretty purple himself in top hat and tails-until he explained that he was on his way to his sister's wedding reception...
...since business at home is not what it used to be. Speedy jets have made it possible for businessmen to fly into a city and out again swiftly, transacting all their business in one day. Families traveling by car have long since bypassed downtown hotels for motels and plush motor hotels. Hotel occupancy rates have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year 37% of all downtown hotel business came from conventions. In medium-sized cities that no longer attract the conventioneers, such...
...perils of the deep and an awareness that the mariner's world required special skills and knowledge. Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina, while the outboard motor has evolved from a poky put-put to a roaring, soaring substitute for a jet fighter plane. The result is a whole new set of perils of the surface...
Canada's trade balance may have received some help from the "Buy Canada" program, with billboards urging Canadians to curb their appetite for imports. "It's just good business to keep your own customers employed," says Brownridge. His American Motors (100% U.S.-owned) won Ontario's "A for Achievement" by increasing its Canadian purchases 500% since 1961. White Motor Co. of Canada is testing a Canadian-designed combination battery box and gasoline tank that the U.S. parent company may adopt for all White trucks. But on many manufactured items, Canadian productivity and pricing simply cannot compete. "Several...