Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While these promises will take at least a decade to perform, they are the most hopeful words officially spoken in Rumania since the War. They show, moreover, that the whole nation is solid in support of Boy King Mihai-or as Queen Marie calls him "Our Tender and Lovely Hope" (TIME, Nov. 26). Appropriately enough last week, King Mihai ignored his Parliament and played with trains-real trains. One locomotive with which he played was the first full-sized freight engine to be built entirely in Rumania. On the day after Parliament opened His Majesty was lifted into...
Last week's preludes to the National Automobile Show in Manhattan this week & next...
...century cartoonists that the only difference between an automobilist and a dum-fool was that the dumfool was prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein. He borrowed $4,300 and shipped...
...After the 2 ½for 1 split-up, authorized Dec. 10. *Other prophets have placed the figure as high as 5,550,000. Output in 1927 was 3,401,326; for eleven months of 1928, 4,124,225. Estimated 1928 production: 4,500,000. *Chicago's fifth show...
...York Automobile Show this year has three innovations, worked out by Alfred Reeves, James S. Marvin and S. A. Miles of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the show's managers...