Word: buick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bloody Car. Among Diamond's acquaintances is one Harry ("Skunky") Klein, 26. Last week detectives found him drunk in a Brooklyn garage once owned by "Vannie" Higgins. They arrested Klein because a Buick car in the garage had blood-splattered upholstery, contained a discharged pistol cartridge and blocks for running it over a harbor stringpiece into oblivion. Tipsy and garrulous, Klein said he was living at the Acra estate, had been wakened by strangers the previous morning at 4 a. m., told to drive the Buick to Brooklyn and find one Fred Witcher who would help him dispose...
Outside Congress: In Washington he rents a comfortable old-fashioned house at 1822 19th Street, K.W. He avoids most social functions, plays golf with such House cronies as New York's Parker, Massachusetts' Treadway at fashionable Chevy Chase Club. Sprightly, he drives his own car, a black Buick coupe, also maintains a Cadillac, a Negro chauffeur. From his luxurious Stamford residence, he golfs at the Wee Burn, Suburban, or Woodway country clubs, takes much interest in the town's Ferguson Library, the Children's Home. He likes the theatre and concerts...
These two cars are in a vastly different Price class but in nearly the same weight class. Under the present French tariff, ad valorem ("according to value"), a high priced Packard pays a high tariff of $1,182 per car, and a medium priced Buick pays a medium tariff...
Under the new tariff a hefty Packard will pay $1,230 (a comparatively trifling increase) but a Buick of nearly the same heft will pay $1,189 (an increase of 75%: a crushing discrimination against Buick or "medium priced" cars...
Ford Victory. If the defeat of Buick in the new French tariff schedules is accidental and incidental, such is not the case in the victory of Ford over Chevrolet, a direct personal victory for Mr. Ford...