Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans, who may eventually spend about $100 million altogether on Indonesian ventures, are getting competition from other nations. Among the 19 bidders for offshore oil rights are French, Canadian, Japanese and Australian companies. Italy's Lambretta is dickering to build a motor-scooter plant to put more of Indonesia's 107 million people on wheels. The Netherlands' Philips' Electric, through a subsidiary, intends to start a radio-parts factory...
...Behind British Motor Corp., British Ford and G.M.'s Vauxhall...
...father was hired by Ford's chief engineer and given a free hand to design the Ford Tri-Motor. It is to Torn Towle, a relatively unknown aviation pioneer, that credit should go for designing the Tin Goose, with its legendary lifting power, durability and structural integrity. He is the real grandfather of the Bushmaster 2000, son of Tin Goose...
...beat and too few cops. In 1929, some 4,000 foot patrolmen guarded the parks and pounded the pavements of the city; today only 2,000 are making the rounds. Now the New York police have found a way to let one man cover the ground of five: the motor scooter. Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary has already checked out 575 cops on 80 Vespas and Lambrettas. And he has just asked for funds to buy 300 more. Eventually, he wants all 2,000 patrolmen to mount...
...black feet. Though the cars weigh a mere 1,100 Ibs., their three-liter engine develops more than 375 h.p., and they can dart down a straightaway at better than 200 m.p.h. At full bore, a Formula One handles so neurotically that in all the world of motor racing only 20 men are fully qualified to drive...