Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped the show at the Drury Lane where they went to see Noel Coward's Cavalcade. Princess Tananie bought $20,000 worth of jewelry and clothes, including 21 pairs of shoes. The Prince collected bicycle catalogs, conferred lengthily in his suite with cycle salesmen on pneumatic tires and coaster-hubs, developed a fondness for English porridge, consuming three servings of the latter at breakfast before bacon & eggs which he attacked with a spoon...
Four hours later, small Johnny Amato was taken to a police station. Of his mother's $3,000, he had spent all but $92 on ice cream, pastry, candy, bicycles, roller skates, coaster wagons for himself and friends, to whom he also distributed $10 and $20 tips. For his mother, whose store his friends patronized with the money he had given them, he bought a pair of roller skates. Mrs. Amato hoped to retrieve $500 which Pig Johnny had left on deposit at another candy store nearby...
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...