Word: essexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terraplane." Asked Hudson Motor Co. in advertisements last week: ". . . Does a generation which planes on water and in the air want the same gliding swiftness, the same fluid smoothness in land transportation?" Hudson's answer was a new car called the Essex Terraplane, on which a mammoth sales drive is centred this week. In the lowest price bracket the Terraplane boasts unusually high power to weight ratio. To Arthur Kudner of Erwin, Wasey Advertising Agency goes credit for the car's name. It has six cylinders, body & chassis as one structural unit, rubber engine-mounting, instrument panel directly...
After the young New Jersey women who painted watch dials with radium preparations began dying, experts denounced the use of radium internally. Particularly vocal were Dr. Flinn of Columbia and Dr. Harrison Stanford Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, N. J. With radium applied externally and for short periods to destroy cancers they had no quarrel. But imbibed radium accumulated in the bones. It was certain death, because, before its ravages could be recognized, it had destroyed a fatal amount of bone...
Died. Lady Crittall, wife of Sir Valentine George Crittall, onetime Labor M. P., of burns received while washing :heir clothes in the basement of their Essex home...
Under the hard ground of the cemetery at North Creek, N. Y., last week was buried a swart, nameless giant who died in a blaze of gunfire among the snowbound mountains of Essex County earlier this month.. Police and U. S. Army records had failed to identify him. But inhabitants of the vicinity had not ceased to wonder and talk about the prodigious "wild man of the Adirondacks" and the terror he spread in the three days it took to catch...
...Blanchard and Turner did not stop to inquire. They fled through the woods and reported to the State police at Long Lake. A lieutenant with four of his men and two forest wardens, accompanied by the trappers, set out on the giant's trail. Shutters and doors in Essex and Hamilton counties clapped apprehensively shut while the chase went forward.* After a 72-hour search, the pursuers sighted a huge, dark figure silhouetted against the snow, a man without snowshoes making incredible speed through the deep, stubborn drifts. It was their man. He came to bay inside an abandoned...