Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coroner's inquest found that he had met "accidental death" when he was either knocked from a moving freight car as it went under an under pass or was struck down by a train as he picked his way along the ties. His home was in Hartford, Connecticut...
...subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie Nugent) makes off with Lawyer Lee's fiancee, and the riot...
...line companies which haven't yet reflected profits from increased oil production; buying chemical stocks like Union Carbide, Air Reduction and Allied Chemical in order to cash in on the inventory boom in the steel and textile industries these companies supply; buying rail equipment companies like Pressed Steel Car, American Car & Foundry, Colorado Fuel and Iron which seem sure to get the profit booming carloadings should be bringing the unprepared U. S. railroads...
...extensible rear bumper which a parking motorist can crank out like a bustle to a distance of several feet, to prevent another car from parking too close behind...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...