Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States patents have been granted to American inventors for the telegraph, the telephone, the sewing machine, the vulcanization of rubber, the moving picture, the phonograph, the incandescent light, the typewriter, the automobile, the sleeping car, the electric car, the linotype machine, the vacuum cleaner, the aeroplane and the leading features that make modern radio possible...
Psychology as well as economic principles plays an essential part in the American automobile industry. Faced with overproduction, huge secondhand stocks, and sharp price competition, many car companies are seeking their individual salvation by tempting the public with new models and thus encouraging continued heavy buying...
...evening in Rome, a man carrying a large portfolio sauntered along the Tiber embankment. A closed car drove up, out jumped two men, the man was seized, thrust into the car, driven off at high speed, while the three men struggled inside. Some time later an agitated Signora noticed that her husband had been long absent. Alarm was raised; search parties organized; all to no purpose. Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, multimillionaire Socialist, husband of the distressed Signora, was missing. It was presumed that he was the man seized on the bank of the Tiber...
...into the road they dashed, held up a passing automobile, forced the driver at pistol points to drive faster than the wind from the pursuing policemen. To all who attempted to stop them they leveled their pistols. Finally, the chase ended. Two patrolmen crowded the fleeing car onto the sidewalk. The patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey...
This Spring, however, several things happened. Oil companies raised the price of crude, and again wildcatters began to bring in new crude production. Meanwhile the optimistic predictions of car makers suffered a rude jolt, and curtailment of car production became general throughout the industry. On top of this, the cold Spring dampened the enthusiasm of the motorist. In consequence, consumption of gasoline has not been extraordinary. But stocks of gasoline reached the wholly unprecedented figure of 1,600,000,000 gallons at the end of April. The indefatigable Governor McMasters of South Dakota is underselling the refineries from stocks purchased...