Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved his connections and platform manners, ran again for Governor last year. This time, having promised voters a reformed Highway Commission and the immensely popular $3 automobile licenses which Governor Talmadge had given to Georgians...
Football, world's most popular sport to watch, will draw 20,000,000 spectators on eight Saturdays this autumn. Seven hundred thousand young men will play it, some for a living, some for an education, some for fun. It will cost the U. S. sports public $30,000,000. Last week football reached the mid-season peak of its most successful year since...
...away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building up anew the theory and tables of the planetary system as well as writing such popular works as Astronomy for Everybody, The A B C of Finance, and a romance called His Wisdom the Defender...
...first Automobile Show in the U. S. was held in Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden in 1900. Most models were foreign-built and all were equipped with tillers instead of steering wheels. Steamers and electrics were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
...compartments. Hydraulic brakes have largely superseded mechanical brakes. Overdrive or fourth speeds for use above 40 m.p.h. are optional or standard equipment on many makes. Some form of independent front-wheel suspension is available on about half the lines. Superchargers are still a specialty but automatic chokes are popular. Prices were cut on many lines, raised...