Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom-made chassis to road-racing Britons who like to zip and roar. A minuscule M. G. has recently done 140 m.p.h. under test conditions in Germany. Those offered in Manhattan are a super-doodlebug at $1,435, promised to do 83 m.p.h., and a species of semi-sport sedan at $2,550 brought out this year in England for the first time...
...Simpson arrived in a black Canadian Buick sedan which entered Ipswich with such rapidity as to have left behind down the road a cameraman's car doing 65 m.p.h. Her chauffeur was the King's own, and Ipswich police, manifesting no desire to write him a ticket for speeding, scrambled to throw open the courthouse gates for the Buick to dash in. With their truncheons they smashed two press cameras. Previously all newsreel crews had been sent completely out of Ipswich...
...Rome he drives a roaring Alfa-Romeo five-passenger sedan and Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously...
...Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...
...miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track to get Cup, first prize, and an extra $3,000 in lap money. Then he jogged slowly back to the pits, put on a coat, drove away in a medium-priced U. S. sedan...