Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stalls were filled. British absentees were the 87-year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that...
After the War, the owners of the Parkway turned it into a toll road. At 50? per car or $110 per season, some 290,000 automobiles used the speedy road annually during the next decade. It was the best route to the swanky Hamptons. Lately, however, the development of great trunk parkways along Long Island, parallel to their curvy forebear, has cut its traffic to a bare 23,000 cars in 1936. Last week, bored with paying some $45,000 a year in taxes, Mr. Vanderbilt offered to give the old Parkway, which is now assessed...
...Angeles engineers installed, at each end of the line, low-power transmitters using about 80,000 kilocycles, and these high frequency signals are impressed on the electric power cables. Through this broad channel they ride easily so that messages are clearly heard by any patrol car, provided it is within a half mile of the line. The great power flow of 275,000 volts so smooth that the radio signals riding piggyback are not distorted...
...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...
...there were penalties for nonattendance. Another exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their...