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Word: sedan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priced field with the throttle wide open. Item A: the new Plymouth, a four-cylinder car, with Silver-Dome high-compression engine which uses any gasoline, capable of a speed of more than 60 miles per hour, selling for $670 (roadster, coupe) up to $725 (four-door sedan). Item B: the new De Soto, a six-cylinder car selling for less than $1,000. In performance and appearance, it is similar to the new Chrysler 65, a slightly more expensive car. "Much for little" is the idea behind the De Soto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motors, Models | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Steve Gold-Steve Gold of newspaper extras, Steve Gold, spectacular murderer, hounded by rival bootleg gangs. But just as he, Marry, a small town dreamer and poet, was about to be of considerable service to this curious fascinating character, Steve Gold was shot down from a passing sedan. Simultaneously Marry lost his County Cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad City | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...standards of civilized society. The progression is from fists to bombs, to pistols, or to machine guns." The Murphy murder quickly reverberated in Brooklyn, N. Y. Frank Uale, alias Yale, dressy gangster and racketeer, friend of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone of Chicago, was cruising comfortably in his shiny Lincoln sedan. Another car (with Illinois license plates) slid up behind. Four men opened fire at the back of Uale's head, then drew alongside and shot off the side of his face. The Lincoln careened off the street, through a hedge, against a brick stoop. The Illinois car vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Tim | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Henry Ford emerged from a 1928 model Ford sedan to browse in the antique shop of Mrs. L. A. Eaton at Conneaut, Ohio. His browsing cost him $1,100; cost Mrs. Eaton practically her entire stock. Strict prohibitionist, Collector Ford defied the Volstead law, bought a bottle of Milwaukee beer, vintage 1848. Two days later Ford employes celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Ford Motor Co. by working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

Soon the Studebaker Corp. of America, "presented" Mr. Smith with a shiny new sedan. The "presentation" was chronicled and photographed as such by the Hearst press but the Studebaker Corp., when closely pressed, straightforwardly admitted that Mr. Smith was merely using the sedan "on loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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