Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently, for TIME in its issue of Jan. 3, has turned back to the would-be humor about the Negro of 30 years ago. For, in telling of the ejection of Mrs. Blanche S. Brookins, a colored woman of culture and intelligence and an interstate passenger, from a Pullman car in Florida, TIME says: "They (the passengers) heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: 'Yoh all let me 'lone yoh whaht trash. I gotta ticket!' " Knowing Mrs. Brookins and her family, having attended college with her cousin, a prominent Negro physician of Florida, such would...
...foot boat, finished in African mahogany, with an automobile top, side curtains, steering wheel and driving devices, for $2,500. Such a boat is the Watercar, made in four models by the Dodge Co. Or, for a little more, you can get a cruiser from the American Car and Foundry Co., a cruiser as neat as a destroyer, with a cool wind always blowing on its deck and a neat shaving of water peeling away from its bow. Perhaps it is a 35-foot cruiser you want, or a 68-foot cruiser with twin screws. It all depends...
...Packer was successively carpenter's apprentice, canal-boat owner, railroad operator, financier and philanthropist. James Ward Packard, the young graduate of the school Asa Packer founded, was successively an employe of an electric company; organizer of his own electric company; inventor, developer and promoter of a motor car which bore his name. The laboratory which he has presented, complete with the most modern of everything in boilers, generators, delicate measuring devices, special laboratories for research in radio, high voltages, refrigeration, and many another branch of technology, represents part of the proceeds from Mr. Packard's eminently successful motor...
...successful that Mr. Packard was able to retire in 1916 from the presidency of the Packard Motor Car Co. He was succeeded by a man four years behind him at Lehigh (but not a graduate), Alvan Macauley...
They rushed to the window in their nightgowns, screaming. The street was full of people. In a minute the Fire Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There...