Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another new front-wheel-drive car. It is not a miracle, not "marvelous," "sensational," nor "at last the perfect automobile." It is not built for speed, cannot perform the impossible. But it will claim to be a man-made machine with many exclusive advantages. It will be "first production car of its kind."* So said Auburn Automobile Co., in advance notice of its Cord car, named after its President Errett Lobban Cord, to be priced between the Auburn ($995 to $2,095) and the Dusenberg ($8,500 chassis...
...Apparently an oblique answer to the new $4,500, front-wheel-drive Ruxton, "America's First Front-Wheel-Drive Motor Car," nationally advertised last week (TIME...
...entirely new car, 15 years ahead of the world's best, able to accelerate from ten to 60 m.p.h. in ten seconds. It is, in fact, but a mirage rolling down the avenues of the imagination. "Unauthorized and inaccurate," said Rolls-Royce Co. of England, bridling proudly at reports, emanating from England and given world wide audience, that it was about to bring out a new model (TIME...
...West, where distances are great there are already deluxe filling stations, each of which represents no small fortune in invested capital, where any motorist can have his car fueled, washed, greased and mechanical adjustments made, all while he is buying tires or any kind of auto accessory that takes his fancy...
...Honorary Police Commissioner of Bradley Beach, N. J. Last week the mystery was taken up by John D. Coughlin, lately ousted as chief of New York City detectives for his failure to solve the Rothstein murder. Quickly tracking nebulous clues, Detective Coughlin caught the driver of the murder car within three days, closed in on the actual murderers. Readers of Van Dine books (The Bishop Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case), are still wondering if bemonocled Arthur Van Dine and his super-detective "Philo Vance" could have solved the crime if they had tried, looked forward to seeing...