Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying, he disappeared into his private car and his train pulled out for Washington, leaving behind the first public declaration of what he intended to do with his great political triumph. Measured in the percentage of the voting public whom he had won to his support, his triumph was as great as that of Gamaliel Harding in 1920. Measured in electoral votes, it was overwhelming. Measured in moral effect it was greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William...
...President and Mrs. Roosevelt (who had driven down the day before in her car) beamed at them, thanked them and went indoors. "We want Roosevelt," chanted the crowd. After a time Mrs. Roosevelt and Marvin Mclntyre came out, beamed some more, waved, retired. After a time Franklin Roosevelt came out on the arm of his son James, walked from side to side of the portico answering greetings. He had to make a second and a third appearance before the crowd would go away...
Died. Henry Bourne Joy, 72, onetime (1905-16) president of Packard Motor Car Co.; of heart disease; in Grosse Pointe, Mich. For Packard's Wartime airplane plant he developed the U. S. Army's Selfridge Field air base. For motorists he pushed to completion the Atlantic City-to- Oakland Lincoln Highway (U. S. Route 30), first U. S. transcontinental hard-surfaced highway. A pioneer skeet shooter, he once held a world record of 157 consecutive breaks...
There is something about some foreign cars which has been factually stated thus: "Rolls-Royce Ltd. give a comprehensive three years' guarantee with every new chassis sold by them. Under the terms of this guarantee not only is any defective part replaced, but it is also fitted to the chassis free of charge." There is also something about the little British roadbug at the humorous other extreme from Rolls-Royce, the Baby Austin. And on sale in Manhattan last week, after five years of successful manufacture by the German firm of Mercédès-Benz...
...years U. S. motor manufacturers have urged lowering of the U. S. tariff on cars, with the idea that only after this was done could they win reciprocal tariff cuts abroad and break heavily into European markets. Today, with the U. S. tariff on imported cars down to a trifling 10%, they are being bought for fun and swank in commercially negligible quantities. U. S. makers watch foreign imports in a mood of amused tolerance far different from that of automobile men overseas. In the United Kingdom the industry is so scared of U. S. and even Canadian competition that...