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...Young Bill cut sharply to the inside and off the track, dug a deep track in the grass and shot back on to the brick. Behind him a bright orange racer spun out of control, turned two circles and crashed into the outside retaining wall. Oil from its wounded motor oozed downward across the speedway but there was no pace slackening; other cars splashed through the puddle. Within a few minutes, the loudspeakers announced that William ("Shorty") Cantlon, driver of the orange car, was dead...
Detroit, packed with "Southern white hillbillies, [motor] company thugs, ex-Bundists, and Ku-Kluxers," is "the most explosive town in the Western Hemisphere." Gunther finds words of praise for Arizona's Governor Sidney P. Osborn, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, Ohio's ex-Governor Frank Lausche, Minnesota's Harold Stassen, pours scorn on Old Guard Republicans, Negro-baiters and anti-Semites...
Higher. The Packard Motor Car Co. boosted auto prices from $75 to $224 a car. Reason: pinched by material shortages, Packard lost $1,148,172 during the first quarter of the year, saw no hope of increasing production enough in the near future to put it into the black without a price rise...
While the Admiral listed the expedition's training, mapping and scientific accomplishments, sailors and river police in motor boats began a wild pursuit of eight penguins that had dashed into the Potomac when their crate hit the dock and split open. At nightfall, three penguins were still at large...
...great surprise, the short will of Henry Ford, filed for probate last week, brought about no changes in his empire. Nor was there any indication that the Ford Motor Co. would have to float a public stock issue to pay the enormous inheritance taxes. It looked as if old Henry Ford had taken care of his death as efficiently as he had run his life...