Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes four locomotives to haul a 22-car train over the top. And the first winter he operated the line, David Moffat discovered that blizzards and snow avalanches would make it totally impassable for six months every year. He was trying to raise money for a tunnel when...
...mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...
Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced away...
...Allentown, Pa., two women prepared to leave a railroad train as it pulled into the station. One Stefan Baletic, fisherman of Buras, La., who had ridden in the same car with the women from Pittsburgh, sprang from his seat...
...young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara Worth, who appears opposite Reginald Denny in an amusing automobile film that runs smoothly enough with standard equipment...