Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Touring the Great Lakes last Fall in a Mathews cruiser, Mr. Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...
Inasmuch as runabouts of this type are usually priced at about $3,000, Mr. Wolfe's exhibit attracted un usual attention. Mr. Wolfe has a distinct profile resem blance to John Barrymore. His catalog contains the profile and also a back cover illustration of a Meteor ambulance car...
Cabin Boats. Characteristic examples of the standard cabin cruisers, built for cruises of weeks and months as well as for week-end excursions are boats made by Elco* and by A. C. F. (American Car & Foundry). Elco (boatbuilder for 36 years at Bayonne, N. J.) has a new sport model which combines cabin accommodations for four with a speed of 20 m. p. h. The Elco Fifty (a twin-screw 50-footer) and the A. C. F. Fifty-Four and Sixty-Eight are instances of the motor boat which has virtually graduated into the motor-yacht class...
What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...
...accident, horrible but instructive, took place in front of Rumania's musty, weather-beaten Foreign Office in Bucharest. When jailed the driver of the car seemed neither drunk, blind nor mad, though his explanation was: "I just didn't notice them in time...