Word: flivver
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...train his bird dog, Sammy. In 1934 an old painting of his, South of Scranton, won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition and Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant...
...assist in its campaign to unionize the Ford Motor Co., the U.A.W. published a small volume entitled The Flivver King; A Story Of Ford-America, announced an edition of 200,000 to sell at 25? each. Its author: California visionary Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Flivver King ". . . because I am sick of seeing lies enthroned and ruling the world." A novelized biography of Henry Ford, The Flivver King contains no startling new facts, presents several little-known, lively anecdotes. Sample: When Automan Ford was in the midst of his Jew-baiting campaign, he selected Cineman William Fox as a victim...
When the Denver Post, where he was next employed, discontinued its morning edition in 1928, Watson started back East in a second-hand flivver with his wife, then pregnant, and $25 capital. At Fremont, Neb. they ran out of gas and money, but got on to Chicago where Watson landed a job with the AP, which in time shifted him to its New York office. There his job, besides rewriting and editing, included important reporting assignments...
...Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar...
Arrow Aircraft is a new subsidiary of Arrow Aircraft & Motors Corp., oldtime U. S. manufacturer of sport and training planes. Its new flivver plane has been three years in the making, recently passed Bureau of Air Commerce tests...