Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this new car...
...ready for production at any minute? He had denied this plan, repeatedly. He drily denied it again last week, saying: "Several good automobile companies are now producing sixes. . . . We keep the engineers working on a lot of things to prevent them from tinkering too much with the Ford car." Then he sidetracked his interviewer by discussing the beauties of "economic leisure" embodied in the new five-day Ford working week...
General Motors was clearly on the way to its place in such a mass-production situation. Its Chevrolet car, brightest star in a banner year, issuing from the factories at the rate of one every twelve seconds of the working year,* has sold in numbers 40% greater than last year. Indications were that Chevrolet would be the largest singly advertised product in the U. S. next year...
...Motors stabilize industry," a saying goes. General Motors, largest corporation in the largest industry at the end of its largest year, found itself in an excellent position to bear out that saying. Its own stability was implied by its possession of a car for every pocketbook-Cadillac, Buick, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet; of specialties and accessories- Yellow Cab and Coach, G. M. C. Truck, Delco Light, Fisher Body, Jackson Wheel, A. C. Spark Plug, Harrison Radiator; and of the huge sideline, Frigidaire, which ranked only after Buick and Chevrolet as an earner this year...
...Sainte Marie, ice-breaking car ferry, tucked up her gear last week, flirted a rudder at the mush of ice coming down St. Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...