Word: carly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...John Goodman, Omaha cowboy golfer who put Jones out of the National Amateur in the first round last year at Pebble Beach, arrived in a car with a trailer, asked a man near the Interlachen club if he could camp on his estate. The householder recognized Goodman, welcomed him, ran his garden hose down to the trailer. Goodman tied with Horton Smith for the lowest first-nine score of the tournament, a 33, slumped thereafter, but finished in a tie for ninth place ahead of Walter Hagen...
...Important members of the N. A. M.: General Electric Co., International Harvester Co., Packard Motor Car Co. Mr. Edgerton is also president of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Woolen Mills, trustee of Vanderbilt University, trustee of Martin College (Pulaski, Tenn.), a Democrat, a Kiwanian, a Rotarian, a Southern Methodist...
Basic principle of "free-wheeling": When the car rolls faster than the engine is turning over, the rear wheels are automatically disengaged from the engine. Bicycle makers long ago incorporated this principle in the "coaster" brake. In the automobile it amounts to an automatic shifting to neutral whenever the engine threatens to act as a brake on the car. When the engine is desired as a brake aid, an auxiliary gear is ready for the purpose on the new Studebaker...
...With his wife and small daughter, one John E. Lamb of Cleveland was driving along a clear road near Canandaigua, N. Y. on his way to Manhattan. Without warning an airplane dropped from the sky a short distance ahead, landed on the paved highway, taxied toward the Lamb car, its wings barring the way. Driver Lamb swung into a ditch to escape a collision, damaged his car though not himself & family. The airplane pilot, en route from Boston to Chicago, had made a forced "deadstick" landing for lack of fuel. He obtained some at a nearby gasoline station, taxied...
...Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...