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  • Among whites, attitudes range from the raw fear of a Miami private-car driver who locks all his windows when he goes through the black section of Coconut Grove to the gnawing resentment of Chicago cop Jim Cosgrove who says affirmative action made him wait seven years for a promotion to sergeant.

    A Crisis Of Shattered Dreams 2008

  • OZOcar New York's first eco-luxury private-car service.

    The 2007 Green Issue: Online Resources 2007

  • The private-car idea was given up, but he employed Cable at a salary of four hundred and fifty dollars a week and expenses, and he paid

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • I never heard of a private-car party which was free from it.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • All private-car lines, industrial roads, refrigerator charges, and the like should be expressly put under the supervision of the Interstate

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • And then the first thing you know, your president will organise a manufacturing enterprise along the line of his road, and the road will give him secret rebates, and practically carry his goods free; or else he'll organise a private-car line, and make the road pay for the privilege of hauling his cars.

    The Moneychangers Upton Sinclair 1923

  • So Montague's man packed his grips, and Alice's maid her trunks; and they rode with a private-car party to a remote Jersey suburb, and were whirled in an auto up a broad shell road to a palace upon the top of a mountain.

    The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

  • He took others of his private-car friends and introduced them to his North

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

  • And then came thoughts about his private-car friends; about the strangeness of this plight into which he had got himself!

    King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

  • From the young men whom she knew she had heard sundry tales of the wild, untamed portions of our country, but these gilded ones had peeked into such places from the windows of transcontinental trains, or lingered briefly in them on private-car junkets, or used them as bases of supply for luxurious hunting-trips.

    Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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