Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...car rattled and swayed as the train jerked slowly out of the station, but the big sergeant standing at the open door balanced himself easily in his thick felt boots...
Sued for Divorce. Howard Henry Spaulding, by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of the late John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charges habitual drunkenness...
Motors. Motorcar makers last week heard of 3 consolidations, completed or pending: 1) Hupp Motor Car Corp. (possibly controlled by William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital...
...railroad station, half of the other dove into the ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket booth . . . The other member of the second goalpost was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel. . . . Six men found a trolly car roof the thing that was being done in transportation from the Bowl to Chapel Street...