Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Ray Keech, 28, of Philadelphia, onetime truck driver, onetime (April, 1928) holder of the world's auto speed record (207.55 m. p. h.), winner of the Indianapolis race on Memorial Day (TIME, June 10); at Altoona, Pa., Speedway, in a four-car smash-up while traveling at a speed...
...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...
...covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium chloride at a temperature of 25° below Zero. Having finished their 40-minute ride through the freezing room, the fish, well and quickly frozen, are shipped in a special type of refrigerator car in which a below-freezing temperature is always maintained. The importance of 40-minute freezing lies in the fact that when fish are frozen, icy-crystals form inside them, break down the cell walls and allow flavor-giving juices to escape. The quicker the freezing, the smaller the crystals...
...passenger car registration of 21,423,597 was not far from the auto-makers "a car for every family" ideal, as it represented one automobile for every 5.6 persons. Other U. S. cars are 3,113,999 trucks, 92,325 busses...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...