Word: citroen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
President Doumergue, accompanied by members of his cabinet, other notables, formally inaugurated the exposition. After the ceremony, he examined exhibits appraisingly, impartially. Standing proudly before their exhibits, greeting M. Doumergue, were such figures of the French automotive industry as Louis Renault, Baron Citroen. M. Farman. M. Doumergue included U. S. stands in his tour, paused, shook the hands of U. S. officials, left the hall...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
...these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England, the Citroen and Baby Peugeot in France...
...route was to have been traversed in nine days by special Citroen auto mobiles, equipped with caterpillar tractors. Along the route M. Citroën had erected many cheap hotels where native jazz bands were to have amused the transient guests. M. Citroën, highly optimistic, had once said: "A new country is thrown open to auto tourists. Tourists, eager for new sights and new experiences, soon will be able to make this once hazardous trip with ease and dispatch. They will be deeply stirred by the magic of this unexplored land...