Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some time trade reports have had it that Henry Ford would ultimately have to enter the spinning, weaving and dyeing industry, if he were going to carry out his policy of manufacting all parts of his car himself. Now Lockwood, Greene & Co., famed engineers and specialists in textile mill construction of Boston, have announced that they have been engaged by the Ford Motor Co. to build a large mill in Detroit, and furthermore that "experiments now being conducted point to a highly abbreviated and highly automatic process in the new mill...
...over the post of President pro tern. Because there is now no Vice President, the President pro tern of the Senate will be its permanent presiding officer. In addition he will have the Vice President's salary ($12,000, instead of $7,500), the Vice President's motor car, the Vice President's offices, and other perquisites. In short, the job of President pro tern has an entirely new and shining attractiveness...
...subway be entirely removed, and new entrances and exits opened in the sidewalks. I have been forced to the conclusion that such a plan is absolutely not feasible. Even if this were feasible, it would mean seriously curtailing the traffic facilities of the subway itself, great inconvenience to the car riders--the escalator would be eliminated--and it would cost more than...
...preparations crossed over to the mainland at four o'clock. Here two automobiles were waiting, one was filled with luggage, the other was empty. A tall, well-groomed and self-possessed middle-aged man wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, his adjutant, Major von Muldner, Burgomaster Kolff of Wieringen, a captain of gendarmes...
...Rolls-Royce is not in it with a modern airplane for reliability. Although the power plant of an air- plane works continuously at almost top power and the engine of a car at only a third of its full power, the airplane engine breaks down far less frequently. Its gasoline system, its cooling, lubrication and ignition systems are far superior to those found in the land vehicle. Such are the deliberate findings of a well known aeronautical engineer (Grover C. Loening) and of one of the best known automobile builders in the country (Henry M. Crane, designer of the famous...