Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People bustled about, put valises in automobiles, despatched trunks. President and Mrs. Coolidge boarded a special train leaving the Adirondacks at 8 a. m., sat on the observation car drinking in the fresh air, scenery, plaudits. At Burlington, Vt., Mrs. Coolidge's girlhood home, the President graciously yielded the spotlight to his wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain...
Would-be-assassin Domingo Masachs Torrent, markedly neurasthenic, did not notice in the excitement of shouting, "Down with you, tyrant!" a secret service car which swooped upon him, ran him down, broke...
...wherein 1,981 persons were killed and 54,398 injured. The most dangerous setting is this: A straight, level road, dry and hard.* Clear weather. Between five and six of a Saturday afternoon. You will run down a pedestrian about three times as often as you will hit another car. He will have been walking, running or playing in the street twice as often as just crossing it at an intersection. In 18.5% of cases, he will have been crossing the street properly at an intersection; in only 17.3% of cases will he have been "jay-walking"; in only...
...facts are generally known about Henry Ford-he makes the cheapest good cars in the world, and he said that history is bunk. Last week came an addition to his duolog. Henry Ford, who has probably had more publicity than any other man in the world's history, does not believe in advertising. "Cut it all out. ... I never did believe in it." So, at least, he is reported to have been reported in a current advertisement of the George Batten Company, Advertising Agents. Needless to say, the Batten Company made Mr. Ford's alleged statement an indictment...
Peerless Motor Car earned $900,138, Fierce-Arrow $803,843, Studebaker $8,735,860, and Paige-Detroit $1,238,758 for the half year...