Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, one Willie Williams, motorist, rattled over the pot-holed streets, was arrested and fined $10 for having on his car license plates that read "Ohio 1906." (In that year, Ohio's "plates" were brass numerals rivetted on leather pads...
President Albert Russel Erskine of Studebaker Corp. tantalized holders of Studebaker motor car stock at their annual meeting last week. He told them that already this year their workers had produced 30,000 Studebakers and 7,427 of the new Erskines. Said he: "Studebaker cars are regaining the popularity they enjoyed in 1922 and 1923." This encouraged the stockholders, for although production records were highest in the company's history, profits for the first three months of this year were less than for the same three months...
Then President Erskine teased his stockholders by telling them to await "an announcement which will be extremely interesting." Some shareholders thought he hinted at a merger of Studebaker with other motor car companies, for the entire industry is alive with rumors of mergers and new alignments. But more probably, in the case of this old family corporation, the "interesting announcement" will be price reductions, similar to the price reductions made last week by Pierce-Arrow...
Secret Kept. Two able-bodied young workmen, who were trying out a new Ford, saw the car go over the embankment. The police were informed. The judge and the lawyers at the Sapiro-Ford trial (see p. 23), Mr. Ford's family and intimates, several doctors and employes at the hospital knew that the richest man in the U. S. was as near death as he had ever been. Yet, so well did all these people keep their secret that it was not until three days after the crash that headlines throughout the land screamed: "FORD HURT IN MURDER PLOT...
Sleep. Railroads, notably the Pennsylvania and B. & O, offered last week new-type pullman coaches. Each car contained 14 private rooms, communicating if desired. Each room had a full length bed, folding table and chair, full toilet facilities with hot and cold running water, electric fans, shaded lights, and full length mirror. For travel in these new cars railroads that had them charged 1¼ fare for transportation plus the price of two lower berths for the use of the rooms...