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Word: sedans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later, the new black Buick sedan of Edward Schneider was found parked in the middle of Fairfax Bridge across the Missouri River. In it were records of Pendergast companies and two suicide notes to Schneider relatives. In dust on the bridge railing were two hand marks and a heel print, such as a man might make in climbing over to end it all. Two miles downstream, Schneider's grey hat floated inshore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vanishing Henchman | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

What the Crosley dealers saw as he sat there was a sleek, rakish, convertible sedan with tiny wheels, wide doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Little Fellow | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...cylinder, air-cooled engine which gives it a high speed of 50 miles an hour, and runs 50 to 60 miles on a gallon of gasoline. Two quarts of oil fill its crankcase, four gallons of gas its fuel tank. At $325 for the coupe, $25 more for the sedan, it will undersell by $62 the only other U. S. midget on the automotive market, the American Bantam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Little Fellow | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...wreckers took his truck and ten pleasure cars from the receding stream, recovered 14 bodies-men, women and one infant. Some had smashed through windows to drown in the flood. Others had been trapped where they sat. One woman had died half out of the back window of a sedan which had landed on its nose on the bayou bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bayou Bridge | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work in kis sedan, had been aimlessly pasting palookas with his murderous left. Since then, however, he has been upsetting set-ups with a firmer purpose-a shot at Joe Louis; a share of a million-dollar gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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