Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zahler car approached, its gears whining softly, rain coursing down the windshield. At the bandit cry of "Halt!" Mrs. Zahler, nimble-fingered, tore off her jewels and slipped them under the seat...
...down the grade, en route to Cuernavaca. So steep is the hill that Mr. Quick could not stop when commanded to halt by the bandits. Two shots ripped through his side curtains. Then, resourceful, Mr. Quick took his foot from the brake, plunged it down upon the gas. His car, bounding, lurching, sped down the hill. Half a mile farther on he met First-Secretary Arthur Bliss Lane of the U. S. Embassy, motoring toward Mexico City with his wife and daughter. Warned by Mr. Quick the Lanes turned round, sped back to Cuernavaca...
Kidnaping. Meanwhile the bandit leader had ordered Joseph Ruff and the Zahlers back into their car. "This is the man we want!" he said pointing to Mr. Rosenthal, who stood shivering in the rain, clad only in a thin summer suit...
...Although I am positive that the light weight car is the car for the future, at the same time there is a demand for a limited number of big, extra powerful and luxurious motor cars. To meet this demand I am bringing back to the Stearns Motor Co. in which I have a large interest, a proposition which will give it the exclusive sale in the U. S. of a new Daimler-Knight sleeve-valve motor of 180 horsepower, the most powerful stock car ever built...
Daimler of England was the first motor car to use the sleeve-valve method of regulating gasoline motor intake and exhaust, the principles of which Charles Y. Knight had worked...