Word: waggon
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...
...estimated that it will cost Sir Joseph over $20,000 per year to keep The Harvest Waggon: interest on his money, insurance...
...auctioneer dropped his hammer and a boy trotted out behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged...