Word: carli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 60 years ago a curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva...
Marie Mattingly Meloney, Editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work...
...Union of South Africa. A former Boer commander who harried the British long and successfully from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens...
...Rafael, Cal., Deputy Sheriffs Tracey and McGinnis spied a pair of lifeless legs dangling from the tonneau of a speeding car. They drew guns, pursued; overtook it. McGinnis covered the driver, Tracey flashed his badge...
...route Manhattanward she entered the newfangled Baltimore &Ohio baggage car, telephoned to the engineer: "Don't let us bump into anything...