Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stations everywhere did before self-service and digital pump readouts set in. But it is only a lasso's throw away from Interstate 80, America's main street from New York to San Francisco, and thus a haven for a dawn-to-dark stream of crippled motor homes, family sedans and four-wheel-drive pickups...
Only two days before the regular meeting of Ford Motor Co.'s board. Chairman Henry Ford II, looking trim and puffing a fat cigar, assured reporters that no new president would be named this month to succeed the unceremoniously sacked Lee Iacocca. Evidently Ford was only trying to confuse the newsmen, because last week the directors indeed named a new president...
...presidential appointment confirms that Caldwell is Henry Ford's choice to be the ranking executive outside the family during the sensitive years of his transfer of power. The chairmanship of Ford Motor Co. is the last hereditary throne in American big business, and Henry II wants to make sure another Ford takes it over. Mindful of his own battle in the mid-1940s to wrest control of the company from Director Harry Bennett, who had gained sway over his aged grandfather Henry I, Henry II wants no willful executives who might contest a smooth succession...
...munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment to open her own salon, the Starlight Beauty Shoppe. The lights in the ceiling twinkled and a shampoo...
Forester Miron Heinselman replies that if motorized vehicles are permitted, the BWCA will no longer be a true wilderness: "Solitude and silence are the essence of it." Janet Green, an ornithologist from Duluth, says that the noise of a motor there is like screaming in church, almost a profanation...