Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, Justice Roche set a new precedent for English insurance law by ruling that an insurance company could not refuse indemnity to one Frank James who, while drunk and driving his motor car, killed one pedestrian and hurt another. Said the judge: "Drunkenness is a folly, not a deliberate offense...
Died. Rafael Sabatini Jr., 19, only son of potent author Rafael Sabatini, creator of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; by accident while taking his mother to drive. The car overturned. Mrs. Sabatini was badly hurt...
Some will say that the General Motors Co. now makes more automobiles than any other company and that the Ford Co. makes nearly as many. Last year, Ford made most, may make most again. But who knows what car company ranks third in production? Chrysler.* (Walter P., first, last and always mechanic, now collects oriental rugs and finances scientific expeditions). So proudly announced the Chrysler Co. last week, pride swelling with the thought the General Motors includes many a different car, includes also Chevrolet, which like the Ford is cheaper than the Chrysler. Of course Chrysler with its "50" selling...
...make (brand) of motor car Chrysler comes fourth after Ford, Chevrolet, and thirdly Buick. General Motors, of course, makes both Chevrolet and Buick...
...when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge, he heard...