Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's valet had laid out an admiral's uniform over which he was to wear a great royal black and crimson mantle. Abruptly Edward VIII, giving the excuse that it had started to rain cancelled all the traditional British pageantry, popped into a motor car and whisked off to Whitehall through what United Press reported as "a lack of crowds considered unprecedented...
...however give a brief outline of his activities during his five weeks vacation. After leaving the boat he spent a week at Beaulieu in the south of England, and for the next two weeks he rented a car and drove down the coast...
...hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house to car...
Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with...
...profit a forwarding company looks solely to the spread between the lower freight rate on full car shipments and the higher rate on less-than-carload lots ("l.c.l."). In practice the forwarding companies charge something less than the going l.c.l. rates, which makes their service more attractive to shippers than ordinary railroad service. Last year U. S. Freight took in about $40,000,000 from shippers, paid out in actual transportation charges about $32,000,000, most of which went to the railroads. Handling the innumerable small pieces of freight cost another $7,000,000, and when...