Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile crashed into a milk wagon at Flushing, N.Y., en route from Manhattan to Spratbrae, my Oyster Bay, L. I., home. The hit horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur].' . . . Joe and the two in the milk wagon soon recovered from minor injuries. My car burned to the ground...
...entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts, and prevented his blood oxygenating itself. He was blue because he was cyanosed. (This is an occasional accident of dyed shoes...
With spring come sproutings of ideas about the motor car industry -from salesmen of cars and of securities and from men in the street...
That Ford Motor Co. proposes to produce a gearshift car very soon. The basis for this rumor is the Ford inquiry made to equipment manufacturers about the prices of new, special machinery. That Ford Motor Co. plans to make a cheap six-cylinder car. This idea Ford officials have flatly denied. That motor car manufacturers this year will seek to buy up or at least control the tire manufacturers who supply original equipment. The logic of this is sound; the motor maker with a tire subsidiary cuts his costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share...
...Million Cars. For railroad men the week of March 12 became significant as they learned last week that for the first time this year they had moved more than 1,000,000 cars of freight-1,005,715. Last year the first 1,000,000-car week did not occur until May, and in 1925 not until July. During the first eleven weeks of this year 10,349,326 cars were moved...