Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down from the snowy Andes to Buenos Aires rumbled a five-car train full of fully-armed Argentine soldiers. Behind, in a longer train, came the President-Elect of the U.S. If he gave thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
They thought her a female Ford. She always traveled by motor, in a long luxurious limousine, with a duplicate car following behind. "I have not an hour to lose on the road, in case of breakdowns," she would explain, "I say with the Americans, whose methods I follow, 'Time is money...
...sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker's son) smiles just like his father; and the hitherto silent voice of Milton Sills has been surpassed, in its recording quality, only by that of Lionel Barrymore. Best shot: bed-time in the circus sleeping-car...
...snake arrived in Cambridge this morning. Accustomed to tropical climes and a specially heated apartment in New York, he could hardly have been expected to endure the rigors of a baggage car, so Pullman accommodations were provided in the form of a suitcase carried by one of the employees of the Film Foundation...
Motors. Samuel Regar, treasurer of the Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. of Cleveland, last week announced that the Chandler-Cleveland Co. has been absorbed by the Hupp Motor Car Co. Stock of the merged companies has a market value of $130,000,000. The first Chandler car was built in 1915. Later Fred C. Chandler started the Cleveland Automobile Co., built the Cleveland, a car in a lower price-range, and soon consolidated the two companies into Chandler-Cleveland. No announcement was made concerning Hupp plans for the Chandler...