Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alan Harriman, 29, only son of Joseph Wright Harriman, president of the Harriman National Bank; at Great Neck, Long Island, from injuries received when his car overturned...
...personally laying it out although a crowd of us, Edsel and others, are working on it." (See AERONAUTICS.) All these and other remarks were made sublime by Edsel Ford's remarking that 727,000 orders had already - within a month-been placed for the new Ford car, of which 537,000 are for immediate delivery, $25 each having been received as down payment. (The most Ford cars ever made in one year were somewhat more than two million.) The promise of Mr. Ford was simply that he would make, make, make, make, neither heaven nor money, but good things...
...went without sleep for two nights to supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible. In 1887 he became its president and remained so for 23 years. In 1910, he was made chairman of the board, an office which was abolished two years ago when he resigned...
Within the show price became of little import. The beauty of car bodies drew attention, the mechanics of motors drew questions. Body colors were brilliant on almost every car. Effective was the Reo Flying Cloud phaeton, grey with red line striping and with red leather upholstery. Effective too was the Cadillac touring car finished in cream & gold and with pigskin upholstery...
Four out of five cars had closed bodies, for the most part hung low. Radiators were high & narrow, hoods large, front fenders flaring. People who tried sitting in the cars found them roomy & comfortable. On dashboards was this and that to make driving less worrisome. On the bottoms of almost every car were four-wheel brakes...