Word: flints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coroner A. H. Flint called as his first witness Dr. Voss's eldest son, Hugo, who testified that though his father did smoke occasionally he never carried a pocket lighter, used matches...
...think," asked Coroner Flint, "that your father deliberately or accidentally set fire to the liner, by which 14 people were roasted to death...
Without comment Coroner Flint called the next witness, a lawyer representing Hugo Voss's estranged brother Albert Jr., who told a story that set.every neck a-crane in the little courtroom...
Buick closed its manufacturing plants at Flint because of cessation of retail sales shortly after General Motors announced February sales of 42,000 cars against 51,000 in January and 47,000 in February a year ago. Last week, however, Chevrolet brought out on schedule its new "standard six," minus 3 inches of wheelbase, 5 horsepower, and various luxury gadgets including free-wheeling-selling for $50 to $75 less than Chevrolet's "master six." Three days after the public was invited to see the new car, Chevrolet like Buick shut down its Flint plant...
Item I: Two miles from Persepolis, a stone age village of adobe houses. Standing about on the floors are pottery household utensils, the remains of food in pots, clay fire-dogs on hearths, flint knives. Red paintings still decorate the walls. Dr. Herzfeld figures that the village flourished 4000 B. C. Just four years before and not many miles away, according to Holy Writ, God created Adam...