Word: fleetwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cadillac has five 1938 lines: Cadillac Sixty, V8, Sixteen, Fleetwood, LaSalle. Only new motor is in the Sixteen, which has 1937's 185 h.p. but less weight and size. Fleetwood claims the world's roomiest body; Sixty has no running boards. All models have gear lever on the steering post, but shifting is not automatic...
...second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia's able slow bowler, L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, took them both before England could add to its overnight score of 165. Australia had then won the match, by an innings and a tidy 200 runs, retained The Ashes by a great recovery, three matches...
...November 1929 the Winchell column in the New York tabloid Daily Mirror read: "If I were king I would throttle the swift talker who got me to consent to serve on the board of governors for the planned Fleetwood Beach Club at Long Beach. N. Y., just because Eddie Cantor. George Jessel, Bugs Baer. Mark Hellinger and others were so gullible. The enterprise, it appears, is being worked along the lines of another 'racket,' to which I am opposed and I hope others won't invest in the damb thing because our names are being prostituted...
...purchase a power plant. A second referendum will have to take place before Akron actually goes into the power & light business. In Sandusky, Ohio the issue was clear. The city decided to build a $1,400,000 light plant to be owned and operated publicly. Fleetwood, Pa. and Cicero, Ind. also voted in favor of public ownership of their power & light plants. In Bradford, Pa., Auburn, N. Y.,Defiance, Ohio, mayors were elected on public ownership platforms...
...team that won the "Ashes" - symbol of world's championship - from England in 1930. Captain was Victor Y. Richardson, a first-class bat and Australia's greatest fielder. The team had a fine wicket-keep in Harry Carter, 54, oldest man on the team. Bowler Fleetwood-Smith dismissed the South Africans twice this season in Australia and will be a valuable googlie* bowler for the test matches next year...