Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone in Washington with a memory for faces was startled. Whisperings were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...
Died. Warren Packard of Warren, Ohio, motor car Scion; in a seaplane accident near Detroit...
Died. Alfred Edward McCordic, 67, of Winnetka, Ill., president of Illinois Car & Equipment Co.; in Chicago...
...fleet of 25. Built by General Electric Co. and Rauch & Lang Corp., it has a gasoline engine which drives a dynamo and, from the electric current so created, a motor which is connected by a shaft with the rear axle.* Of all Colonel Green's cars only one does he drive, a small electric storage battery car which he uses to go sight-seeing on his estate. Last week, however, he took the wheel of the new car which has no clutch, no gear shift, merely a brake and accelerator. So pleased was he that he ordered a similar...
...George V, at Sandringham, was delivered an all-British, six-wheeled motor car, built for maximum speed of 60 m. p. h. Col. Francesco de Pinedo, round-the-world Italian flyer in the ill-fated seaplanes Santa Maria and Santa Maria II (TIME, April 18, 1927), resigned as Chief of Italy's General Staff for Aviation. Successor: General Valle...