Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rock Island railroad station. Cavalry bugles blared and police sirens shrieked as the Presidential procession moved off on a circuitous and well-advertised route which took it along all the city's principal streets on its way to the Capitol. From the back seat of an open car, President Roosevelt smiled and waved his Panama hat at the cheering crowds, well sprinkled with Landon sunflower buttons, which lined the curbs...
...singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus a motor-cycle police escort. Even though he kept in the back seat of his closed car, citizens along Des Moines streets knew that Alf Landon had arrived. The Republican nominee answered their cheers with smiles and waves of his sailor straw...
...Haven, Conn., Policeman Michael F. Hally stopped Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for passing a red light in her automobile. Said she: ''I was watching the street car in front of me." Said he: "You wasn't watchin' nothing...
Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
Progress is mostly a modern observation lounge, has one compartment, three double rooms, all on one level. Advance, however, is a "duplex" car with two levels. It has 16 rooms, nine on the floor level, seven more reached individually by three steps from the corridor at the side. Each has a transverse sofa which converts into a bed. Six of the downstairs rooms have partitions which slide back, converting them into three double rooms. With airconditioning, indirect lighting, individual toilets, folding armrests, folding tables, the new cars are the most comfortable Pullman has yet produced...