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...brother Jim wanted to amuse themselves by putting out the nearest tongues of flame with a garden hose. Leo Carrillo's was evacuated because unlike less energetic movie folk who watched the flames from their porches, he preferred the excitement of riding close on his sleek white horse...
Equipment ranging from sleek little package cars to 30-ton double-trailer trucks, 58-passenger busses, and mobile airport units, indicated the range of utility covered by the U. S. trucking industry, which gives employment to more than 3,000,000, pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter...
Hupmobile, out of the running for more than two years, is back with a new president, onetime Chicago Dealer S. L. Davis, and the dies of the flashy, ahead-of-its-time Cord of a few years back. The low-priced Skylark six struck from these dies is sleek and slip-streamy with a 101-h. p. motor for which is claimed the fastest getaway of any U. S. car. Price: $895. (Later a 4-cylinder motor will be installed for a lower-price market.) Other Hupps: the Senior Six ($995) and Eight ($1,145), conventional streamliners with optional overdrive...
Soon he sees her coming down the platform. It is easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...
...boats and men are made so sensitive they are almost machinelike, the champions of the Gloucester and Lunenberg fleets make a healthy contrast. There is no hierarchy of yacht racing associations, of new tank-tested boats every year. The false atmosphere of tailored yachting uniforms, professionals who groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels...