Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every speeder his own judge " is the novel means which the Swedish Riksdag, with the help of inventors, has adopted to curb reckless auto-mobiling. Experiments are being conducted with a new recording speedometer which is to indicate not only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...
July 16, 1923. Seven greasers take possession of a cross-roads hut in the outskirts of Parras. After three days of waiting they see an automobile coming down from the big ranch in the hills. As the car slows up at the cross-roads they open fire from seven rifles. Of 40 bullets which catch the car, 16 sink into the body of one man. Pancho Villa has been killed by his enemies. He had no chance to draw his own pistols...
...capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
...report of railway car loadings for the week ending June 30 showed that two new records for all time had been established. During the week, 1,021,770 cars were loaded-which tops the previous record of 1,018,539 cars established in the week ending October 14, 1920, at the height of the post-war freight movement. The second record is for the successive number of weeks when loadings exceeded 1,000,000 cars; the week ending June 30 is the fourth successive million-car week. During October, 1920, three million-car weeks occurred. Increased loadings were reported...
William Vincent Astor is given chief credit for the new air-route. He has always been interested in speedy methods of transportation by sea and land. In his early youth he met with many accidents, including the notorious smashing of Mrs. Ogden Goelet's car at Newport...