Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk October morning last year, in a parking lot at North Arlington, N. J., a policeman, mildly curious, wakened a pimply youth of 18 asleep at the wheel of a large sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor...
...holds for a democracy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, Crown Princess Louise and Prince Bertil of Sweden set sail for home on the Gripsholm. They said they had a wonderful time. As a gift from General Motors. Prince Bertil took back with him a shiny new 8-cylinder Cadillac sedan...
...below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood's painting, Death on the Ridge Road, which shows a big red truck about to crash head-on into a black sedan at a hilltop curve. Pages of statistics prove that most fatal accidents occur to experienced male drivers in the prime of life going straight ahead on dry roads in clear weather-but at high speed. Most arresting fact: In all its history the U. S. has had but 15 years...
...Interior. Turned up in the process have been lurid stories of "secret police," embezzlement, telephone-tapping (TIME, Jan. 31). But though they kept at work just as busily last week, they turned up only one fact that was even faintly lurid: Harold Ickes has three expensive Government Packards (one sedan, two limousines...
This Gentleman turned up in Barranquilla in late July 1936 with his then Model T Sedan, and two pals. We learned that he had crossed Colombia, from Ecuador on excellent highways as far as the upper Magdalena River, from where his conveyance floated down the River on a very comfortable steamer for approximately 900 kilometers, landing him in Barranquilla, where he covered several of his kilometers on concrete city streets...