Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Experience has taught most inhabitants of Mexico to be calm in the presence of bombs. Therefore when Chief of Police Edmondo Herrera of the rebel garrisoned city of Juarez, saw a large red bomb lying in the gutter, one evening last week, he stopped his car and inspected it professionally. It was a time bomb, containing about 24 Ibs. of dynamite and set to explode...
Illinois Central's Locomotor. It looks like an interurban or subway electric car, but is a combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily...
...Passersby in the Kingsway stopped and stared when these two arrived at Magnet House. There was little of the American in Mr. Swope's appearance. He has rimless eyeglasses. . . . Mr. Chadbourne had to bend almost double as he got out of his car...
Last week U. S. motorists blinked eyes in astonishment; U. S. motor car makers held heads proudly high. Astonishment and pride alike resulted from a perusal of automobile production figures for the first quarter of 1929. For these statistics showed that speeding 1929 was leaving record-breaking 1928 far behind. They demonstrated a percentage increase worthy even of an infant industry; a volume increase that should materially contribute to the development of the U. S. citizen into a creature with two arms and four wheels. Having produced more than 1,000,000 cars in the first three months of record...
General Motors. In addition to its Chevrolet output, General Motors (which in 1928 produced about 39% of all U. S. cars) also kept its other companies running at record-breaking figures. Cadillac and La Salle March production totaled 4,009; the Olds Motor Works turned out 13,000 Oldsmobiles (44% increase over March, 1928); Buick reached a March figure of 15,206.* Production has also been started on a new General Motors car -the Viking. Made at the Oldsmobile Lansing plant, the Viking is an 8-cylinder car with a V-type motor...