Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flag. "Looking from the window of the car as our train approached the Russian border, my attention was attracted by a flag of the Soviet Government flying from the top of the frontier station. Doubtless it was once red, perhaps deep red, . . . but the winds had whipped it and the elements had beaten it until its carmine hue had faded. It looked colorless...
...huge gross earnings of $160,000,000 during the last year, they fell below the gross of $190,000,000 established the preceding year; profits also fell some $10,000,000 below those of last year. This decrease is mainly due to the reduction upon the profit obtained per car, which dropped from $90 a year ago to $43 this year. During the latest period, the concern produced 1,833,812 cars, trucks, tractors and Lincolns, compared with a total of 1,080,000 vehicles the preceding year...
Unprecedentedly heavy car loadings together with the firming of security and commodity prices, have been the most recent indications of a prosperous Autumn trade now close at hand. The domestic situation has been sufficiently cheerful to counteract such pessimistic foreign news as the Japanese earthquake, the Italo-Greek imbroglio and the economic flounderings of the latest German Government. It is evident that the present momentum of the retail trade should carry well through the late Autumn, unless some unforeseen calamity or calamities develop. Pig production, however-a good index of general production-has fallen off, and the extractor and manufacturer...
Died. Howard ("Howdy") Wilcox, 35, veteran automobile racer. His car skidded and rolled over, fatally injuring him, in the inaugural 200-mile race on the new Altoona (Pa.) Speedway...
...Deed. A heavily wooded and lonely stretch of road in Greece. An automobile is approaching Santa Quaranta from Janina. In the car, Italian members of the International Commission for Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian frontier - General Tellini, Major Scorti, Lieutenant Conati, their interpreter and their chauffeur. The car is halted by a barricade of fallen trees. Shots ring out from the woods on either side of the road. . . . The five Italians are found dead. . . . The Greek Government expressed its profound regret to Italy. . . . The Ultimatum. The news of the murder was received throughout Italy with violent indignation. Demonstrations against Greece...