Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed Air Secretary David Ingalls etc. Among Aintree-of-Cleveland members are Railroaders Frank and C. Farrand Taplin, President E. J. Kulas of Otis Steel Co., K. L. Grennan of cake and cooky fame, Robert Calfee of the Peerless Motor Car Co. and A. C. Ernst of Ernst and Ernst. Head riding master is Joe Glenday, Scotch as the heather, small of stature, lover of horses. New-Aintree also has a junior polo team, winner of local tilts...
...boys composing the tour are all approximately seventeen years of age, and travel resplendent in uniforms, marching upon occasion accompanied by their own band. A special train consisting of three Pullman cars, one club car, and a baggage car, has been employed during their journey...
Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...
Immediate subjects of presidential talk en route to Wiesbaden were, of course, the mechanics of the Opel-G. M. deal. Every German motorcar maker knows that Opel's cheap ($650) standardized car last year controlled exactly half the German market (45,000 cars out of 90,000 total production). Yet G. M. executives, pondering Chevrolet's enormous success in the U.S., talked of scrapping the Opel, offering Germans a still cheaper car. Perhaps it might be the Chevrolet itself. Perhaps it might be a new make, lighter, with only 5 h. p., to sell at 1,800 marks...
This is a war of cheap cars, Ford v. Chevrolet. There is a surprising dearth of such cars on the Continent. Citroen, leading continental mass-producer, cannot turn out a car that will undersell the Ford in France, though Fords cost 25,700 francs ($1,008), about double the American price. The cheapest Chevrolet model sells for 30,400 francs ($1,191). France's 45% ad valorem duty largely accounts for these prices. Even with this duty, it is estimated that General Motors' projected cheap car for the Opel Works could be sold in France at about...