Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Valdemaras, known as the "Firebrand of the Baltic," was Lithuania's Premier and dictator from 1926 to 1929, when he was ousted by Smetona. In 1934 he was sentenced to twelve years' hard labor for an unsuccessful coup d'état, was later allowed to go to France where he has been living as an exile. Known as a Germanophile and Fascist, hardheaded, stiff-necked Augustine Valdemaras is also bitterly anti-Polish. Back in the late twenties he campaigned so vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski...
...ultimate aim: to relieve the driver of all concern with transmission control, enabling him to give fuller attention to modern, high-speed traffic problems. Other changes: Running boards are abandoned completely in some models, optional in others. The rumble has given way to the 4-to-6 seat coupé. General savings in gas consumption and in wear & tear are promised from the overdrive, an automatic super-high gear that engages somewhere between 23 and 35 m. p. h., cutting the motor speed down almost to that of the drive shaft. Not the same as freewheeling, the overdrive provides free...
American Bantam, smallest of the streamlined lot (120 in. over all), comes in a standard coupé at $399, a station wagon no bigger than a doghouse at $565, and nine intermediate models...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-price car, looks like Chrysler, De Soto and Dodge, has a 114 in. wheelbase, longest any Plymouth ever had. Its five Roadkings ($740), eight DeLuxes ($805), all turn up 82 h.p. Catchiest number showing is the convertible coupé, with a top that slides magically into place or back at the twist of a dashboard knob. Secret: intake vacuum power...
...story of a Fascist coup d'état which miscarried because it was met with a counterattack as savage as the charge of the Cadillacs driven by the Barcelona volunteers; of militiamen using as weapons anything that came to hand-old automobiles, old airplanes, revolvers, dynamite, makeshift armored trains. Largely written in Spain between July and November 1936, it was turned out, diary-fashion, while Malraux was leading the Loyalist air force. After flights over Franco's ter ritory, he shut himself up in Madrid's Hotel Florida, wrote in five or six-hour spurts, making...