Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility of the manufacturers who build them in the way of engineering development and testing, it is said at government expense. They have the most advanced forms...
Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...
...voice, nervously twirls a whistle attached to a black cord. He rarely blows the whistle but the cord wears out every ten days. His appearance is extraordinary. He has green eyes, a cleft chin and snow-white hair. He earns about $15,000 a year, drives a Chevrolet...
...passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned to recoup his fortunes in 1921, is no longer made. When Asbury Park...
...position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon of Jan. 30, 1936, and another man was similarly driving a Ford westward along the same section, from 17th to 18th, at 30 m.p.h...