Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho opened an agency for Lexington motor cars (he still prides himself that he can take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...
PACKARD, WITH A 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE, WHICH HAS FEATURED ITS CUSTOM EIGHT SINCE 1939 AS "AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL MOTOR CAR," GLADLY WELCOMES CADILLAC AS A WORTHY COMPETITOR IN ITS POWER BRACKET WITH THE 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE YOUR ISSUE OF OCT. 25 REPORTS, BUT IS SURPRISED THAT USUALLY ACCURATE TIME IMPLIES THE CADILLAC ENGINE TO BE EXCLUSIVE IN THAT POWER RATING...
...CHRISTOPHER President Packard Motor Car Co. Detroit, Mich...
Ford Finance. Outsiders got a rare glimpse at the financial innards of the Ford Motor Co. when the late Henry Ford's widow-and executrix of his estate- filed an accounting in court. The company, which had been losing money in 1945 and 1946, had improved enough to pay dividends of $2 a share last December and $3 a share last April. About one-third of the $1,907,100 paid on the stock held by the estate went to grandchildren Henry, Benson, William and Josephine Ford, who were left the voting stock. The rest went to the Ford...
...Labor government, many of whose members are middle-class intellectuals, is acutely aware of the problem. So are Britain's social scientists. In a report published recently, the Nuffield Foundation (endowed by upper middle-class Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield) disclosed a grant of $80,000 to the London School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise...