Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Everyone knows the data of American prosperity which have become commonplace. There was one motor car for every eight inhabitants, one radio set for every four inhabitants, one telephone for every three. . . .* Suddenly this beautiful scene collapsed and we had a series of black days. . . . Black days followed black days and prosperity was replaced by long lines of unemployed waiting for soup and bread in the great American cities. . . . From that day we also were pushed into the high seas, and from that day navigation has become extremely difficult...
...walked his wife. Esther, one of Finland's ablest female novelists. Scarcely were they out of sight of their house than they were whisked at pistol-point into an automobile, hurtled all day and all evening over the soggy, rutty Finnish roads toward the Russian border. When the car ran out of gasoline 60 mi. from Russia, the kidnappers jumped out, left Dr. and Mrs. Stahlberg to walk to the nearest town. They got home safely but the country was shocked. In Finland the Lapua (antiCommunist) Movement had just succeeded in driving Communism out of the Diet after...
Sticking out his posterior, lowering his head belligerently, Max Baer,* California heavyweight, possessor of a 16-cylinder car, confident manners and many suits of flashy clothes, charged out of his corner in Madison Square Garden last week and began to lambaste the ribs and features of Ernie Schaaf† of Elizabeth, N. J. Schaaf backed away and countered. In Schaaf's corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell...
...rumors that he and Motormaker Durant have been getting along none too well. These they both denied last week. Nevertheless, Mr. de Vaux announced that he has bought Durant Motor Co. of California, will refinance it as de Vaux-Hall Motor Corp.. will manufacture a new six-cylinder car, the de Vaux. A big dealer organization in the West will be at his command, and the de Vaux will probably be sold in this territory at first.* although last week Mr. de Vaux also announced he has leased building space in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Hall of de Vaux...
...strictly Western car is the Kleiber, made by Kleiber Motor Co., San Francisco. But the greater part of Kleiber output is trucks. Fageol Motors Co. of Oakland specializes in trucks. *Other cars supplied by Continental Motors, biggest U. S. manufacturer of gasoline engines, include Peerless, Durant, Jordan...