Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came a bright September evening and the Warrior sprang from the defense into militant campaigning. In a new brown derby, with Mrs. Smith on his arm, he boarded an elaborate eleven-car special train at Albany. As it sped westward, a big red bull's-eye sign on the back platform announced: "Smith-Robinson Special−the Victory Ticket...
Vice President Richmond Dean is the hero of Pullman car naming. When the Pullman Co. took over the Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...
...only Pullman car named for a living hero is the "Colonel Lindbergh," now the observation car on The Spirit of St. Louis, in service between St. Louis and New York...
Recently the Pullman company extended the felicity of its facilities to horses. In a specially constructed Pullman car, "BathHouse" John Coughlin, Chicago alderman & sportsman, last week shipped two glossy thoroughbreds from Arlington Park., Ill., to Belmont Park...
Chevrolet last week turned out its one millionth car of this year...