Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automation entered the language during a conference of Ford Motor Co. engineers in 1946-and it has been influencing society ever since. On the one hand, it has made possible the vast growth and technological advances of the U.S. economy in recent years; on the other, it has been a source of worry and perplexity to millions of people. One of the big worries of labor leaders and economists has been that automation gains might enable a strong economic advance-like the present one-to surge forward without creating any new jobs. Last week that worry was at least partially...
...management reshuffle, bus-making Leyland Motor Corp. enlarged the board of its principal manufacturing subsidiary, Leyland Motors Ltd., and filled the new posts with three young men (average age: 39) who had risen through the company's ranks. Not a public-school boy among them. Even more surprising, Leyland made two new appointments to the board of A.E.G., another important group subsidiary-and picked a 33-year-old and a 29-year-old from the ranks for the jobs. The shifts reflect the philosophy of Managing Director Donald Stokes, 50, a onetime salesman who took over last year...
...dashes out in front of you. You hit the brake, of course. But with which foot? A few years ago, the question would have been ridiculous, but today the ubiquity of the automatic transmission with its clutchless floor board is making it the subject of a great debate among motor-vehicle bureaucracies. Some states encourage left-foot braking (among them, South Dakota and Michigan); some disqualify or penalize any license applicant who does it (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Utah). Most states have no policy at all. And there is, in fact, something to be said for both sides-or both feet...
...American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, an organization of U.S. and Canadian officials concerned with driver licensing, has announced that it is giving especial attention to the foot problem and hoped to come up with a recommendation-right or left-by fall...
...under-$1,000,000 class are also beginning to take to the air in Europe. Germany's Hansa 320 last week made its maiden flight, will go into production in early 1965. Italy's PD-808, a joint effort by Piaggio, the maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, and the Douglas Aircraft Co., will undergo test flights in June. Britain's Hawker Siddeley will deliver its first DH-125 jet to Krupp in August, has orders from 13 more corporate customers...