Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order the vehicle to halt. Thoughts of highway robberies, his family, a hundred dollars in his pocket, who knows what flash through the mind of the man at the wheel. Confused he hesitates before applying the breaks. Two shotguns blaze out, twenty-six slugs strike the side of the car, and the driver crumples over into his wife's lap, dead. Such is the story carried in the Monday morning papers of another mistake made by prohibition agents...
...experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...Motors, Inc. (a Delaware corporation, capitalized at $5,000,000, all privately subscribed) expects to build 500 Ruxtons by July 1 and 12,000 during 1929. Its president, A. M. Andrews, is a director in Hupmobile Motor Car Corp., its vice president and designer, W. J. Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that...
Perhaps hardest hit by the merger, however, was the German motor car industry which, with its largest unit (Opel) already a General Motors affiliate, and with one of its most menacing invaders (Ford) now backed by the resources of Germany's largest company, appeared more than ever unable to hold its own against U. S. competition. One outstanding difference between the General Motors-Opel and the Ford-I. G. F. arrangements was that General Motors bought into Opel, whereas I. G. F. bought into Ford. To discuss these international operations in warlike terms, the Ford-I. G. F. purchase...
...prizes, Indianapolis racers win awards for leadership in each lap, awards offered by accessory manufacturers for the successful use of their products-spark plugs, tires, gasoline, ignition. The prize total is high, there is frantic competition. In 1912 Ralph De Palma led for 499 miles, broke down, pushed his car the last mile, finished among the leaders, was disqualified. In 1925 Harry Hartz finished fourth, having driven the last half of the race with his car's frame sprung out of line, the front axle bent, the steering post torn loose from its bracket, a film of oil squirting...