Word: auto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
Engaged. Howard Fisher, youngest of the seven brothers of the Fisher Body Corp. fame; to Miss Justine Price, daughter of the late Lawrence Price, head of the Auto Body Co., onetime leading rival of the Fisher Corp., of Lansing, Mich...
...Auto-conscious citizens have been kept in a titter of excitement since the introduction of Ford, model A, through the successive automobile shows, the successive price cuttings. If citizens had over- emphasized the importance of the vehicle industry in 1927, they were brusquely brought to their senses last week. They learned from Washington that the past year had been relatively ineffectual, auto- wise. The number of passenger cars sold was 2,938,868; less than 1926, less than 1925, less than 1924, less than...
While passing through the Chapultepec Gardens, Mexico City, on his way to a bull fight, General Alvaro Obregon, onetime President of Mexico, one-armed Presidential candidate, good friend of President Calles*was halted by a smallish auto (Essex) swinging in front of his powerful limousine...
...must carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble...