Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarter of a ton of Mayors rode out of New Orleans in an automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds...
Droll was an adventure which befell last week, James Albert Edward Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn, since 1922 Governor of Northern Ireland. To his personal motor car the police of Belfast had just assigned a distinctive combination of lights, so that even at night instant right of way would be accorded to His Grace...
Eventually research established that the Belfast police had assigned to the Vice regal car the same running lights as those already held by a local bus route...
...with cash, scholarships, pensions, homes for poor people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
Values of the experiment: (i) Train crews need not signal one another with lanterns, flags or whistle toots; brakemen need not dogtrot over moving car tops to deliver messages to engineers; (2) Train dispatchers can give orders without stopping trains; (3) The voice supplements automatic train signals...