Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frequently he goes to Manhattan, tearing up the highway at breakneck speed with his mother sitting unruffled beside him. But never does he go by airplane. Few years ago only stockholders in the company were Martin and Motorman Louis Chevrolet. But in 1934, with funds needed for expansion, 325,000 shares of Glenn L. Martin Co. were put on the market at $11.50 a share (current price: $34.625). Today, Martin remains well in control with some 37% of the stock in his hands, but the bankers who are now interested in his company have taken...
...joined Packard in 1918 as a truck salesman, was sales manager and vice president of Packard's New York company when he was brought to Detroit in 1932 to serve as Mr. Macauley's right hand in Packard's successful invasion of the medium-price field. Motorman Gilman once crusaded against the bad manners of Manhattan taxi drivers by cruising about the streets in an old touring car and forcing offenders into elevated-railway pillars. His big accomplishment to date: raising the pressure of Packard's gentlemanly dealer organization-which last year handled 50,260 cars...
...political reasoning behind I. R. A.'s English bombings is about as involved as a Rube Goldberg invention: 1) one of I. R. A.'s 15,000 members gets a job in England as a mechanic, poster painter, motorman; 2) he plants a bomb in a place where it will raise merry hell but probably kill no one; 3) the terrified English people put pressure on the Government; 4) the Government cedes Northern Ireland to Eire; 5) a unified Irish Republic is formed, which will be so anti-British that it will take sides against Britain...
...laga, Picasso's characteristic recollection is a singing motorman whose streetcar's speed depended, not on the company's timetable, but on the rhythm of the song he steered by-gay or melancholy, galloping or slow. The mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...
...streamlined machine age of rocketing Buck Rogers. Designed to tweak the curiosity of young readers or listeners will be stories giving a sound if rudimentary picture of the physical world and modern industry. Novel literary features include: vocational stories "appealing to the child's deep interest in the motorman, the fireman, the engineer, etc."; "Paper Tearing," a section "designed to satisfy a child's constant demand for nonsense"; and "How Big," a section illustrating the relative size of things: of for example, bears and small boys...