Word: maybachs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to try the delicacies of different countries." So perhaps it was pace which slimmed Princess Juliana, whose latest pictures show her to be by no means her former dumpling self (see cut). She and Benno have zipped and roared around Europe in a $15,200 silver-finished Maybach-Zeppelin automobile. On their last night in Paris they got home to their hotel toward dawn, were off next day for The Netherlands in their Maybach without realizing what was in the rumble seat. As the great car shot across France, frantic telephone calls from Paris strove to intercept...
...models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered by General Motors German subsidiary at 1,450 marks. By special permission of newlywed Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana her new 12-cylinder Maybach-Zeppelin convertible costing 38,000 marks ($15,200) was exhibited as "Most Costly Car In The Show...
During the year the National Museum acquired 296,468 new items. Among these were the trophy awarded in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race 30 years ago, presented by William K. Vanderbilt; the sailplane Falcon, presented by the widow of Sportsman Warren Edwin Eaton (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); a Maybach dirigible engine; a Mergenthaler linotype; a model of the locomotive De Witt Clinton and train; 108 new textiles; 136 coins; 1,314 stamps. Dancer Sally Rand did not send in her fans, as she has promised to do eventually. Nor was the Wright Brothers' plane forthcoming from London, whither Orville...
...Paris, one in London, and sells "Tokalon" powders and creams "in 100 countries." He would sell his latest product in the U. S. "if I could find a good man." Three months in the U. S. this autumn was sufficient for Mr. Neal. Last week he sent his magnificent Maybach-Zeppelin limousine back to France on the 5. S. De Grasse, departed on the 5. S. lie de France with his buxom young wife, his buxom young French secretary, his 9-year-old son Nen La Motte Sage (after the father's pseudonym), maids, valet. 30 trunks, 40 other...
...chauffeur's compartment is a gold and silver panoramic view of old Egypt with Egyptian dancing girls thinly veiled, going through rhythmic motions." The carpet was oriental, the interior fittings silver and ivory. Reporter De Long subsequently learned more facts about the limousine. It was a bullet-proof Maybach-Zeppelin. 22 ft. long, weighing four tons. with 12-gear shift and capable of 100 m.p.h. Its cost: $52.000. "Whose is it?'' he asked inside the hotel, and was given a card: E. VIRGIL NEAL...