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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 »

...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 »

Driving toward his home on the outskirts of Indianapolis, not in a racing car but in his 1939 Chevrolet sedan, he got off the road on a soft shoulder. The car skidded, hurtled off an embankment, pitched out a man who was as well known to latter-day race fans as were Wishart, De Palma and Rickenbacker before the War. Two days later, as it will to 30,000 far less skillful and less famed motorists in 1939, death came to "Wild Bill" Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Soft Shoulder | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUNAWAY FORD PRECIPITATES PAST FRESHMAN, INTO FENCE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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