Word: chauffeur
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...morning, a chauffeur-driven Ford Motor Co. car pulled up in front of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, picked up the Indian visitor, and whisked him off to a tour of Ford's sprawling River Rouge plant, then on to United Auto Workers Local 600. "I've been driving for Ford for 23 years." the chauffeur candidly admitted to his passenger. "But this is the first time I've ever taken anyone to a union hall...
...when he sought an audience with the Führer, Hitler deferred his drive toward Paris long enough to meet Von Wiegand near Brussels-a reunion that Von Wiegand recorded in his usual breathless style: "Hitler dashed up in a six-wheeled open car, sitting beside the chauffeur. There was a clicking of heels and an outstretching of arms in salute. Von Ribbentrop greeting him at the entrance. It is two years since my last talk with Hitler...
Abandoning its economy ax for a whittling knife, the House Appropriations Committee studied the $6,702 allowance for U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren's chauffeur for fiscal 1962, boldly slashed...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
...somewhat adding insult to injury, giving Secretary of Defense McNamara a chauffeur-driven Cadillac after that huge loss of Ford income? The least compensation should be a chauffeur-driven Lincoln...