Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buick brought out a series of lower-medium-priced cars during the year, giving it four complete lines and 25 body types. The new small Buick is built on a 117-in. wheelbase, powered with a straight eight motor, and designed like the bigger models with a sharp V radiator, long narrow hood, broad fenders...
...Roche is proud that, despite Depression, her company is making more than in the days when her father spent tens of thousands on machine guns and barbed wire to strew around the mines. But she is not rich. Most profits go back into the company. She drives a battered Buick, stays at the home of her friends Senator & Mrs. Edward P. Costigan when she visits Washington. Surprisingly, she is a small, gentle, thoroughly feminine person with a soft voice, a quick, nervous laugh. Even in her coal mining office she dresses as most women dress...
Jimmie Rodgers now had money. His records were played throughout the South, in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India. He could buy all the whiskey he wanted to forget his pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole...
President Roosevelt was scarcely well out to sea aboard the Houston before Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman (Todhunter School) and Nancy Cook (Val-Kill furniture) rolled out of Washington on the four wheels of the First Lady's tan Buick coupe. On an "off the record'' vacation they were setting out to add more thousands to 35,000 miles the President's wife has travelled since March 4, 1933. First they scuttled westward into the mountains of West Virginia to inspect the work being done by the American Friends' Service Committee of Philadelphia among half starved children of mine...