Word: carly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State amount to some $25,000,000 a year-all his own if he wants it. Moreover, His Exalted Highness is considered by India's princely spendthrifts a miser who is inordinately stingy with elephants for State durbars and who rides around in an old touring car while other less prosperous maharajas sport dozens of custom-built limousines. Thus he has amassed a fortune which includes treasure houses filled with gold, jewels, ivory carvings, antiques, not to mention a railroad or so, a few mines, stocks & bonds. He has often been called the world's richest...
Wheeler narrowly escaped death only three weeks ago on a Columbus Day grip to New York when the steering gear of his car broke while he was driving at 50 miles an hour and the car overturned. He escaped uninjured and went on to New York by train...
Curtis L. Clay, Jr. '41, his companion on the trip, was riding 50 yards ahead, and escaped injury when the speeding car sideswiped Wheeler, throwing him 90 feet into a ditch...
...car was traveling at "terrific speed", State Police, who are investigating the case, said last night. Wheeler's bicycle was found three quarters of a mile away from the site of the crash. Apparently the driver turned into a side road at this point and removed the wrecked bike from his front bumper...
Police found fragments of headlight lens on the spot, from which they believe they can trace the car's ownership. Clay could only identify it as a black sedan. He said he heard a crash, looked back, and by the time he turned around the fleeing car's license plates were too far off to be read...