Word: motorizing
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...motor world today. In 1925, the Fisher Body Corporation built more than half the automobile bodies for cars having a base price in excess of $500. (Seventeen years ago this firm was housed in one small building.) President William A. Fisher: "Our tremendous business has resulted in achievements it would otherwise have been impossible to attain...
...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...
...floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor...
...spectre that had raised its head two years ago to prognosticate a saturation point in motor-buying seemed to have been laid very effectively. Time-financing had been the chief weapon used, and conditions looked favorable for its continued...
This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means. The retelling of these sounds like the staccato popping of a high speed motor...