Word: autos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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History. During the War, Capt. Harry J. Hahn, Kansas City auto salesman, served with the U. S. aviation corps. In France he met and married Mlle. Andree Lardoux, niece of the Marquis de Chambre of Brittany. She brought her husband a natural dowry of dark hair and eyes, Gallic chic. Her property dowry included a painting of a gentle faced brunette whose bosom plumply filled her brick-red velvet bodice. The painting was on two layers of canvas, bore on the back the inscription: "Taken from the wood and put on canvas by Hacquin at Paris, 1777."* It had been...
Died. George Miller, 48, farmer-millionaire, joint owner of 101 Ranch and 101 Ranch Wild West Show, of skull fracture, in an auto crash near Ponca City, Okla...
...human eye reveals what foods are best for the body and that the color of the eyes is due to auto-intoxication and not to pigmentation. I changed the eyes of one woman from brown to gray within five months. I could not have done it if the color of the eye had been caused by pigmentation, as pigmentation cannot be altered. All babies are born with a bluish colored eye, and when they turn green, gray, brown, hazel or some other color, it is not an accident, but indicates an inherited or acquired toxic condition...
...things could have attested the importance of the automobile in America as well as the interest that has attended the opening of the annual National Auto Show in New York this week. The significant trends and the plans of each manufacturer have been widely published and the most obscure potential purchaser is well supplied with abundant information. There is one factor, however, that is interesting on several scores for its absence rather than for its appearance, and that is the element of economy. Miles per gallon claims, so recently the source of heated rivalries, have become as unfashionable as four...
...reason probably is that this part of the upkeep cost has become too insignificant to figure in the computations of most buyers. Not only has the price of gasoline remained nearly constant while the national income has risen considerably, but the prosperity that has come upon the auto industry has so increased the value of the dollar spent in purchasing a car that the smaller fractions of it saved in such ways lose their significance. Probably the most important consideration of all is that higher consumption of gas brings increased power, and it is not without its significance in America...