Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great many people not to do this," he says. "I don't think I ever hesitated." Indeed, from the day of his inauguration, Shafer began plotting and plugging for reform. With his aides, he set up a special office wryly dubbed "Fort Courage" in the Penn-Harris Motor Inn near the capitol building in Harrisburg. He enlisted Scranton's help, as well as that of former Democratic Governor George M. Leader; he raised $50,000 to finance the campaign and began a fatiguing round of personal appearances. He especially emphasized constitutional reforms that would: 1) upgrade Pennsylvania...
Fascinated with the success of that venture, Ackerman called in Trautman, then a San Francisco lawyer, set him to reorganizing Greyhound as a holding company. In quick succession, Greyhound picked up an industrial catering company that feeds workers at General Motors, hospitals and other institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries...
...third pass, the Besslednyi scraped sides with the U.S. destroyer Walker, losing a motor launch and tearing a whip antenna off the Walker. Then it withdrew. Next day DD025, a Russian destroyer of the heavy Krupny class, armed with two missile launchers, continued the contest of nerves. Again, Walker was one of two ships ordered to force it away. This time the Russian ship swerved directly across the Walker's bow. The two ships brushed momentarily together, and the Walker disengaged with a six-inch hole in its hull above the waterline...
...pressurized rice cookers, washing machines, fans, radios and, lately, television sets. Tjingling Yen and his wife Vivian, who holds a master's degree from Columbia University, operate two of the fastest-growing companies on Taiwan. From facing desks in a modest Taipei office, Yen's Yue Loong Motor Co. this year will sell 6,000 cars and trucks assembled from parts made in Taiwan or Japan. Mrs. Yen's Tai Yuen Textile Co. turns out 20% of Taiwan's textiles, does a $15 million annual business, mostly overseas...
...phrase of Atlanta Lawyer Howard Moore, "airlines carrying the people all over the country to the great museums." Paul Goodman, 55, one of the aging gurus of the New Left, spends much time visualizing how city streets could be turned into playgrounds or parks, and how motor cars could be barred from Manhattan (the last being an idea that should do a lot to win friends for the New Left...