Word: phaetons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MAXIM," asked New Haven Carriage-Maker William Hooker Atwood in 1896, "do you want this carriage to look like a Western buggy-maker's job or do you want it to be a gentleman's carriage?" Answered Hiram Percy Maxim, builder of the Mark I Electric Phaeton: "Like a gentleman's carriage, Mr. Atwood." For almost half a century, the U.S. automobile was indeed a "gentleman's carriage," built for men and bought on the basis of its mechanical excellence, not its sculptured lines or pleasing colors. Today, the woman buys the car -and she wants...
...MEDIUM PRICE. Pontiac Chief tain Catalina, 21.10 m.p.g., 51.72 t.m.p.g.; Dodge Coronet 500 V8, 20.90 m.p.g., 50.14 t.m.p.g.; Mercury Montclair Phaeton, 19.15 m.p.g., 47.69 t.m.p.g...
...tubeless tires. The new paint combinations are dazzling, e.g., a white and lavender hardtop with orchid interior. Gaudiest car: the Crown Victoria Fairlane two-door (see cut), which has a thick belt of chrome running across the top of the car to make it look like a semi-convertible phaeton...
...individual entrants was Mrs. Loula Long Combs, 70, who has taken blue ribbons at every one of her National showings since her first in 1913. Rounding the show ring in her red-wheeled phaeton, with her smartly liveried footman sitting behind her on the dickey and her docked, high-stepping horses trotting in perfect rhythm, she took the harness pairs class, celebrated her 54th year of competition by winning eight other events in the hackney horse and pony classes...
...quarries, racing stable, patent medicine, arsenic mines, ill-starred stabs at politics were all but eclipsed by the 1894 depression march on Washington of his "Commonweal of Christ" (known to posterity as "Coxey's Army"); after a stroke; in Massillon, Ohio. On Easter Sunday, 1894, seated in a phaeton drawn by his $40,000 thoroughbred pacer, well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works and $500 million in greenbacks to be spent on wagon-road building. After getting...