Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown, was off last week on a four-day fishing trip to Loon Lake-and one of his own cabinet members thought that was a most appropriate place for the Governor to be. With a roar of rage, Robert McCarthy, 40, resigned from his post as state director of motor vehicles. Wrote McCarthy: "It has become difficult for me to work for a spineless administration that lacks both courage and principle. When I accepted your appointment in January 1959, we agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need for vigorous leadership. Since that time your support...
Outrage is exactly what the strange craft was intended to provoke. The stunt of putting an outboard motor in a gondola was perpetrated by Gino Macropodio, who led his 350 fellow gondoliers in their latest protest against the growing encroachment of motorized craft in Venice. The motoscafi, strikers pointed out, violate the canals' 7-m.p.h. speed limit and kick up waves that further weaken the foundations of the slowly sinking city. Some motorboatmen also violate the city ordinance limiting their working hours from midnight to 6 a.m., carry passengers and small freight afterhours in competition with gondolas...
...York's Irving Trust Co. and Equitable Life finally agreed to lend TWA the money, but only on stringent conditions: Hughes was obliged to place the 78% of TWA's stock owned by Hughes Tool Co. under the control of a voting trust composed of former Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest Breech, former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds, and Raymond M. Holliday, chief operating officer of Hughes Tool...
...keys extend into levers that make the impression on paper. Instead, the Selectric has mounted inside its case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker...
...Ford Motor Co.'s vigorous development of burgeoning auto markets in Europe and Australia helped boost its second-quarter earnings to $2.42 per share, v. $2.22 last year...