Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Department officials said yesterday that nobody was hurt in the fire that consumed the interior of a locked Ford sedan on Dunster Street Saturday morning...
...most spectacular pictures are those of the agents at machine gun practice, riddling targets with 600 rounds a minute, firing out of speeding cars, and at night lighting up the range with tracer bullets. A sedan disintegrates before your eyes under a few seconds of concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from...
...closed sedan parked in the street at Guilford, Conn., police found two dead persons who had apparently been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes, though the ignition was shut off. To prove to baffled police that the victims could not have been asphyxiated when the car was in the open, Yale Physiologist Yandell Henderson entered the tightly-closed sedan, sat safely inside 25 minutes with the motor running...
Near Somerville, N. J. one day last month Trooper William A. Turnbull of New Jersey's State Police sighted a blue sedan scorching down the highway, gave chase, forced the speeders to stop. While he was arguing with the driver, another man and a woman got out of the automobile, poked pistols in his back. In the car they stripped, bound and wrapped him in a blanket, drove 50 miles to a spot near Bethlehem, Pa. where they dumped him out with his wrists bound, lips taped...
Presently the big automobile reached Mountain View, was coursing down a road lined with orchards when a Buick sedan belonging to Valley Electric Co. suddenly popped out of an intersection. In the resultant crash, Audrey McCann was thrown out, knocked unconscious, hospitalized for four weeks with a brain concussion, an eye injury, many a laceration. The McCanns and the Hoffmans remained friends until John McCann tried to collect damages. When the Hoffmans and their insurance company refused to pay, the McCanns sued the Hoffmans for $30,000 general damages, plus $1,237.65 special damages...