Word: flivvered
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...went out to my father's ranch . . . and got some rope for the hanging. Then I went all over the town in my flivver roadster and passed out the word: 'We're going to have a lynching at the jail at 11 o'clock tonight.' . . . Mostly I went to the speakeasies and rounded up the gang there. That is why so many of the mob were drunk...
Startled by the boldness of the move, the industry scarcely knew whether to cheer, scoff or suspect. Was the Department of Commerce about to hand out $7,000,000 contracts to favored manufacturers? Was it going to solicit R. F. C. money for production of the Vidal "flivver?" Would it prescribe its ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response...
...everything else in aviation Fairchild had its slump. As a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. it lost $2,100,000 in 1929, $870,000 in 1930. Next year Sherman Mills Fairchild, its shrewd young president, pulled his company out of Avco, began quietly to build it up again by producing "flivver" planes. His losses last year were only $52.000. Last week Fairchild popped smartly back into the news with an announcement that it had contracted to build the world's fastest commercial amphibion. The Fairchild amphibion was designed for Pan American Airways which ordered six for $217,680. It will...
...Ford (who sometimes called himself Our Freud). Motto of the World State was Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." When you were out of sorts you got drunk on a soma tablet; if you were a woman, and the condition persisted, you took a Pregnancy' Substitute Treatment. Sometimes you went to Solidarity Service, made the Sign of the T, sang hymns...
...make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver...