Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson Junior by $1,000 to $4,995, to get under the five-passenger Bird. Curtiss-Wright followed by cutting its four-place sedan from $6,370 to $4,595. Both builders admitted they could not make money at the price...
William J. ("Wild Bill") Rooney, Chicago Sheet Metal Workers' Union boss, paced the sidewalk in front of his house one afternoon last week. A dark blue sedan drew up to the curb. One of the three occupants shouted: "Hi, Billy!" Boss Rooney, expecting his own car, turned. Three shots racketed through the street. Boss Rooney slumped to his knees. His cigar fell from his mouth and rolled along the sidewalk, with him sprawling after it. He was the second labor leader to be murdered in Chicago in five weeks...
...faced, handsome David Ignatius Walsh, now U. S. Senator. Of middling height and weight, Governor Ely violates all rules of Massachusetts Democracy by smoking cigarets instead of rancid cigars. A quick, flashy smile has rendered him immensely popular. As Governor, he transferred from his own Chrysler to the Chrysler sedan furnished by the State but kept his private chauffeur. At the State House he received, among many another, a great floral tribute from Motorman Walter Percy Chrysler...
...Life-time lubricated" springs, automatic chassis oiling. Prices: $795 up. Willys-Knight produced a standard sedan and big touring car with double drop frame lowering the centre of gravity, powered by an 87-h. p. engine...
...lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this former charm he realizes that went along with this former charm he realizes that the present has a compensation of comfort that is even more attractive than half remembered antique beauties...