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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tunnel | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Dover, Ohio, last week, four tipplers received a "water-cure" sentence of ten days from Mayor Groh; a gallon must be imbibed on each day; failure as to quantity will mean an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tunnel | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...features of the salon was the new Erskine Six, labeled "the first European type of six-cylinder car built in America." The machine is named for Albert Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corp., speeds 60 miles an hour, nets 25 miles to the gallon. Mr. Erskine was not in Paris to see his car support the U. S. invasion of European markets. At his desk in the home of Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., he was thinking politics, writing a telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Automobile Salon | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Acting Secretary of the Treasury Winston ordered that one-half gallon of "approved gasoline" be put in every 100 gallons of industrial alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Under Way | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...dealers were going to sell the new Willys-Overland "Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Cars | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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