Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Roosevelt rises at eight o'clock, dons one of his four well-tailored business suits* and eats a hasty fruit-egg-toast-and-coffee breakfast. By 9:15 he is in the White House car which has been sent for him, his eldest daughter, Sara, 5, seated beside him. He drops her at the Potomac School the kindergarten of which he is a War-time alumnus. By 9130 James Roosevelt is at his father's bedside with Secretaries Early and Mclntyre. ready for the day's orders. At 10 his appointments begin...
...built superspeed highways (Autobahnen). On them British Minister of Transport Leslie Burgin was recently driven for some hours at an average speed of 89 m.p.h. "We have the best motor roads in the world!" cried the Führer, opening the 1938 show. "Soon we will build the cheapest car in the world!"This car, the famed Volkswagen or "people's car," often referred to in Nazi electioneering speeches, has been under development by German engineers since 1933, and the Führer has several times voiced his impatience with their slowness...
...Research, which attracted attention in the newspapers Thursday morning with a statement on auto headlights by Val J. Roper, of General Electric, and this morning with an address on traffic fatalities by a member of the National Safety Council. The public has slowly come to realize that driving a car is an exacting, complicated task. They are now eager to be told what the latest research in this field has discovered. For this reason, the Street Traffic Bureau is an important public oracle; it is looked upon as the voice of experts...
...Factors of safety are incorporated in the design of all other parts of the car," Roper declared. They are as much needed in the head-lighting on which life and limb are staked...
What had brought steel prices down, however, was apparently something more realistic than a desire to placate Mr. Roosevelt. Hudson Motor Car Co. is supposed to have got a substantial reduction for steel for its new low-priced" car. General Motors is said to have ordered 5,000 tons from Republic Steel as soon as the low price could be made effective. Steel production for the week rose only from 30%' to 31% of capacity, but Cleveland's statistical Colonel Leonard P. Ayres declared: "These developments terminate what was a kind of deadlock in business. From...