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...commercial heart of the British Empire, the physical City of London is a square mile of tangled alleyways originally built for handcarts and daily clogged with motorcar traffic. When the bombs fell, they at least opened spaces that had not seen the sun for centuries. After the war, Londoners began to hope that what Sir Christopher Wren was never able to do for the City after the Great Fire of 1666, a modern architect might do. But the new buildings that arose haphazardly were the same old "Bankers' Georgian," and each day 350,000 businessmen, clerks and stevedores still...
...Prime Products), is what was known at the time as a freethinker. He is president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus. And at every opportunity he comes crashing down, and damn the Spode, on the side of lip rouge and attached collars...
Prolechariot. In Peking, the Communist press announced the production of a new, de luxe Chinese motorcar-an eight-cylinder, air-conditioned sedan with silk rug carpeting and a scented mahogany dashboard...
...preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said $1,600. But the ferryman thought that was not a fair sheik, refused to switch cars at any price. His Highness' motorcar had to queue, wait...
WILL ANYONE AGREE TO GO FROM PEKING TO PARIS THIS SUMMER BY MOTORCAR...