Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private car and a new life of wealth, ease and perhaps happiness. Rolling down to Austria, he established himself high on a crag 25 mi. from Vienna at the castle of Baron Eugene Rothschild, who was host to the King & Mrs. Simpson last summer. Said the Duke of Windsor: "I am remaining...
...situations. He has carried fairly heavy pieces of her luggage in railway stations. She has called him "Boysy" to his face in brilliant London ballrooms, spoken of him to their British hostess as "the little man" when he was King and Emperor, kept him waiting two hours in her car outside her dressmaker's. When relatives of hers from the U. S. have been in town, she has taken His Majesty around to their London hotel bedrooms and he has shaken and served the cocktails. That realistic Mrs. Simpson ever thought she could be Queen of England without...
Even more impressive has been the buying of cars and engines, a type of business which titillates two branches of heavy industry, steel and the equipment makers which use the steel. Fortnight ago New York Central ordered 100 locomotives at one crack, more than were ordered by all railroads last year (83 ). Last week, along with its rails, Atchison ordered 27 locomotives and 3,025 freight cars. Pacific Fruit Express, jointly owned by Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ordered 2,000 new refrigerator cars, announced reconstruction of 1,750 old ones, at a total cost...
...many a disillusioned automobile buyer has learned by now, the 6% interest rate on instalment purchases has no relation whatever to the actual interest cost. It is simply an advertising slogan. To the unpaid balance on a car is added the cost of insurance, the total being multiplied by .06 to find the premium paid for the privilege of buying on the instalment plan. Since the debt is paid off in regular instalments, the borrower has the use of only about one-half of the original loan if the monthly debit balances are averaged. Thus the true interest cost...
Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...