Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came last week to Victor Louis Berger, famed Milwaukee Socialist. Twenty-two days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices were closed the day of his funeral. He it was who had nursed Wisconsin Socialism from a pink Fauntleroy to a ruddy, vote-mighty brawnyman...
Because it is delicate rather than garish, scholarly rather than smart, the work of Cleland escapes the casual observer of U. S. advertising pages. But famed was his General Motors series (1924), black and white pictorial decorations for statistics-Labor, Car Sales, Assets, Freight, etc.-drawn with such refinement that they seemed like engravings. Famed also was his Cadillac catalog (1927) in which sleek, pastel-tinted automobiles were pictured in great vaulted salons or beneath the towers of fabulous cities. Most numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils...
...Slogan: A Car Rolls, a Farman Glides
Cadillac Motor Car Co. opened in Detroit last week a $1,000,000 engineering building which will be devoted to experimental work on new Cadillacs and La Salles...
...squeeze into it. It will sell for $200. It was invented by James V. Martin of Martin Aeroplane Factory, Garden City, L. I. Mr. Martin is looking for a Wall Street firm to finance it and for a mail order house to distribute it. It is the new "baby car." arrival of which has been for some weeks rumored (TIME, July...