Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taking a walk one afternoon at 5:00, the President was nearly run down by a Ford delivery truck driven by a Negro. Just as the President was crossing the street between the White House and the Treasury Building, the car swung into the street from Pennsylvania Ave. Two secret service men seized the President by the arms and drew him back. He said nothing...
Anyone whose motor has broken down in the Adirondacks near Ballston Spa, N. Y., well remembers the towing car that thunders out to fetch cripples into Ballston Spa's leading garage. A sturdy, determined car of incredible age, seemingly, a car strangely difficult to classify as to make. For the wheels are obviously old Cadillac ones, about 1911 model; the radiator, an even more ancient Speedwell part. Something about the headlights suggests Stutz 1912. The windshield is off a Scripps-Booth. Then there is a Packard horn, with Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with...
These secrets of mechanical anatomy were revealed by the General Electric Co. one day last week after having the car on the operating table for a bit of electric welding, which proved wholly successful despite the patient's great...
...country seemed to go quietly about its business. Optimists did not find it necessary to yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
Among vanishing Sunday morning pastimes is that of "working on the car." No blue law, but increasing familiarity with cars and extension of garage service, have brought the motor owner out from beneath his crankcase to stand and watch or sit at home waiting while a garage man fills the grease cups, tightens nuts, adjusts brakes, oils squeaks...