Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Westchester County a jury awarded $21,000 damages to Frederick Grewen, 34, knocked down on Manhattan's Park Avenue last April by Mrs. James Roosevelt's automobile. The President's mother and her chauffeur, Louis E. Depew, who was alone in the car when the accident occurred, were codefendants. Said Supreme Court Justice Mortimer B. Patterson: "The jury was generous, all right...
...Automobile Dealers Association, extensive monopolistic coercion is practiced by General Motors Acceptance Corp., Commercial Credit Co. (which finances instalment sales for Chrysler), Commercial Investment Trust (for Nash, Hudson, Auburn, Studebaker) and C.I.T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (for Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing (TIME, Nov. 22). According to the Department of Justice, their monopolistic methods cost the public $60,000,000. Having listened to evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce its findings when crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger suddenly post-poned...
...automobiles, coal, steel and cement production, car loadings, department store sales, he predicted next year would be worse than this. For petroleum refining, unemployment and business failures he predicted increases. For electric power and tobacco products little change...
...Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail-road car") from Cincinnati to Cumberland...
...cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver...