Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh day of debate, at 1:20 A.M., with M. Briand in command, with M. Poin-caré in bed, and with the thermometer at 90° the government put through their law with a vote of 300 ouis to 292 nons. Thus by the narrow squeak of 8 votes-the smallest majority thus far received by the present government-M. Domergue was authorized to pledge that France will pay the U. S. a total of $6,847,-674,104.17 (of which $2,822,674,104.17 is interest) over 62 years. The French Senate must confirm the Chamber...
Rushing in his car toward Angora the Ghazi saw that it was true. Jutting high above a dusty plain is the ruined citadel of Angora. The "Fish Bazaar," the old section of the town, known to modern Turks as the pest section, straggles down from the summit of the rock to the bleak modern city at its base. Up the rock now, as the Ghazi gazed, leaped crackling flames, lighting up the plain. For hours the Ghazi worked shoulder to shoulder with firemen, policemen, soldiers. The acrid smoke of burning buildings mingled with the smell of burning fish. By morning...
Long have mail-order houses like Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., sold by mail tires and other automotive accessories. Last week Sears, Roebuck decided to sell the automobile itself. Details concerning price and type of car had not been decided. Announcement was made, however, that the car would be manufactured by Gardner Motor Co., Inc.* and that Sears, Roebuck & Co. would distribute...
Montgomery Ward & Co. is also considering marketing an automobile. Automotive bystanders, hearing that General Motors was experimenting with a small, airplane-motored automobile priced around $250, to be shipped in a box which would serve also as its garage, linked this rumored "aero-car" with the Montgomery Ward story. General Motors offices belittled the story, said that with 30,000 G. M. dealers there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive...
While U. S. automobile men were planning small cars, an English automobile man was announcing the invasion of the U. S. market with a small English car. The invader was Sir Herbert Austin; the car the Austin Seven. The Austin will be manufactured at Butler, Pa., by a U. S. branch of Austin Motor...