Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David is presently a director of several companies, including the Ford Motor Company, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Pan American World Airways, and Sinclair Oil Corporation. He is a trustee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations...
...Lyndon Johnson has anything to say about it, his aloof, ferociously efficient Defense Secretary will stay with it at least another thousand days. "He's the only man in my Cabinet I can find at his desk at 7 a.m.," allows L.B.J. Since resigning as president of Ford Motor Co. to come to the Pentagon in January 1961, McNamara has proved the most controversial, strongest and best Defense Secretary in the history of the office, and has made the post the second most important in the Government...
Richard E. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles, has written the City Council that "a very large proportion of the payment markings...have been created without the knowledge or approval of the Department of Public Works and, in consequence, are without legal standing before the courts of the Commonwealth...
...says New Jersey's former Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes, 86, "this driving is getting to be an engineering feat." The Senator is "perfectly able physically" to perform the feat, he says, but just a little tired of it. Chauffeured over to Trenton's Department of Motor Vehicles, Hawkes turned in his driver's license forever...
...prime mover, so to speak, of traffic congestion is the U.S.'s explosive increase in motor vehicles, from 8,000 in 1900 to 90 million now. More pertinently, the car population has risen by almost 50 million since World War II, growing an average 5.7% a year while people increased by only 1.7%. Millions of families have bought their first car, or their first second car, or their first third car. Traffic engineers have been caught flat-tired. Great fleets of new cars will continue to cascade onto U.S. highways, but eventually, a point of saturation comes-probably...