Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special train to be run from St. Louis to Ann Arbor, Harvard men will greatly outnumber Michigan alumni, who will fill only one car. The party of Harvard alumni and friends will number about...
...hold down the jobs. Then they shift. Most undergraduates are employed in nearby Cleveland and Dayton, in department stores, landing fields, newspapers, advertising agencies, factories. One of the largest single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...
...standard Ford is a relatively "big car" to Germany with its four-horsepower Opel, to Britain with its 7.8-horsepower Austen, to France with its five-horsepower Peugeot and Citroen...
...their best to split the 41, crowd more automobiles on British highways, by opening their annual Automobile Show at Olympia, London's spectacle house. Salient facts: ¶ Ten million dollars worth of automobiles were on view, 148 makes including 37 British, 26 U. S., 19 French. ¶ Cheapest car in the show: the British "Baby" Austin, selling for $631. Fords cost British buyers $826. ¶ Most original car in the show: the Trojan, with engine astern. ¶ Staggering innovation: the hoar and royally honored firms of Rolls-Royce and Sunbeam have at last abandoned the cantilever rear spring, adopted...
...coming to town, invited his employer, Mrs. Eva Donohue, to see Black Diamond. When they arrived at the circus the elephants were being unloaded. They stood by and watched. Black Diamond spied them, gave Pickett a malevolent look, wrapped him in his trunk and tossed him over a box car. The nine-ton beast then smashed Mrs. Donohue to the ground, trampled the life out of her. When Pickett had been sent to the hospital, keepers held a council, wired to Circus Owner John Ringling for advice. Mr. Ringling condemned Black Diamond to death. The keepers tried to feed...