Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your answer to the question regarding the name of the 1921 car Senator Borah is standing beside in the March 30 issue of TIME is absolutely wrong...
...car is not a Ford but an Overland and any oldtime automobile man will tell you the same at one glance at the picture...
When the smoke cleared away both bandits were dying; Constable Jack Lewis lay dead on the floor. Behind the mask of the bigger bandit was the face of Ontario's model prisoner, Red Ryan. He had systematically engaged in robberies ever since his parole. A stolen car was parked nearby...
...Wilson is on his way to marry Katharine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) when he is picked up as a suspect in a kidnap case. He is driving the same make of car as the one the kidnapper is reported to be using and is roughly of the same description as the man sought. Knowing that a lynching party is forming, the sheriff telephones for military aid which the Governor, because of political cowardice, at first refuses. By the time the Governor changes his mind, there is nothing left of the jail but a smoking ruin in which, at the flaming window...
...usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from...