Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on to explain that the shares had been left to him for life in order to endow a Daimler automobile. "I did not fancy myself as the owner of a motor car," continued the Prime Minister. "It was against the simplicity of my habits. It took a long time to be persuaded and letters are in existence which reveal our minds. In the end I agreed with this arrangement. A sum of money was to be invested in my name and the income I am to enjoy during my lifetime so long as I keep the car...
...those screeching vehicles labelled S. P. Q. R. (Senatus Populusque Romanus)-, known also as "tram-ways," sat Fascist Deputy Armando Casalini with his 14-year-old daughter. As the trolley car moved off, a well-dressed young man answering to the name of Giovanni Corvi jumped on the rear platform, drew a revolver, fired three fatal shots at Casalini, who fell forward and remained motionless despite the pathetically desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots...
...automobile manufacturers, provided with facilities for enormous output, are carefully studying foreign markets these days as an outlet for their production. One of the most promising foreign markets is Great Britain. The removal of the duty on imported cars there should prove an undoubted stimulus to the sale of U. S. cars. Nevertheless, there are several difficult handicaps still to be sur- mounted by our automobile exporters. First of these is the high Brit- ish horsepower tax of almost $5 per horsepower-or $100 annually, even on a Ford. The tax yields the hard-pressed British Treasury about $65 million...
...incentive behind Mr. Ford's determination to build and operate in England is undoubtedly that he will have there no competitors in manu- factoring cheap cars. The cheapest British car costs $575; British makers are so unaccustomed to standardization of a few models only, that they manufacture over 300 models. Daimler alone has 5f models...
...appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges Car pentier and his manager, volatile Francois Descamps. On the Majestic (White Star)-Florence Easton, Metropolitan Opera singer; Samuel H. Church, President of the Carnegie Institute. On the De Grasse (French)-Joseph C. Stehlin, famed U. S. ace, with a 183-karat diamond bought from the ex-Sultan of Morocco; Florence...