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1932 Cadillac V16 Sport Phaeton

Produced during the Great Depression, only 300 V-16s were built in 1932, and the Sport Phaeton body style was particularly exclusive. More...

Cagney, Jimmy (1899-1986)
Another dancin' tough guy, James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer. Cagney is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast in the early years of his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role of George M. Cohan in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Wikipedia; 47;

Al Capone (1889-1947)
"the Al Capone of Cheese," 3; the Green Mill, 16; aka "the Big Guy," 69; "you could end up cellmates with the Big Fellow himself," 74; "Republicans and gangsters?" 135; Wikipedia

Carnera, Primo (1906-1967) 74, One of the most famous and controversial boxers of the 1930s — a huge Italian heavyweight whose career straddled the worlds of sport, show business, and organized crime. “The Ambling Alp” was the 1933–34 world titleholder — a favorite target for comedians because of his size, accent, and gentle personality. He was often portrayed as a lovable lug in American pop culture.

Cheese Corridor Incursion
Around 1930, Lever Brothers (UK) and Margarine Union (NL/DE) merged to form Unilever, uniting soap and margarine empires based on global fat supply. Their rapid growth into Europe’s "cheese corridor" provoked resistance from traditional dairy producers — sometimes dubbed the Cheese Corridor Incursion — marking the moment when industrialized edible fats began to eclipse local butter and cheese economies; "masterminded by Bruno Airmont," 86;

Clifton
133, a steward (a service attendant responsible for taking care of passengers’ day-to-day comfort, especially in their cabins and in certain public or dining areas) on the Stupendica, "light-fingering" his way through steamer trunks in Hicks's cabin;

cocktails 'n' booze
12, Mistletoe gin; 43, Lew Basnight's favorite, "The Doc Holliday"; martinis, 79; Old Log Cabin Presbyterian, 93; Wisconsin Old Fashioned, 94; Mistletoe gin, 108; Calabrese Ndrangheta 200 proof, 120; "Champagne Coctails, Sidecars, French 75s, Jack Roses, and Ward Eights," 134; "a Jack Rose the size of a birdbath," 137;

COLOR
63, the New Nuremberg Lanes; magenta and green, 64; "Midnight aubergine and electric kumquat," 133;

Crater, Judge Joseph Force
126, His disappearance in 1930, one of America’s great unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, became shorthand for people vanishing without a trace ("to pull a Judge Crater"). Pynchon pretty much lays it out: Crater left his summer home in Belgrade Lakes, Maine, telling his wife he needed to “straighten out a few things” in New York, arriving in Manhattan on August 3, 1930. He spent the following days withdrawing large sums of cash (about $5,000) and destroying papers. On the night of August 6, he had dinner with his mistress, chorus girl Sally Lou Ritz, and his lawyer friend William Klein at Billy Haas’s Chophouse on West 45th Street. Around 9 p.m., Crater hailed a cab, and was never seen again..

Crosstown, Boynton “Boynt”
2, Hicks’ boss at Unamalgamated Ops; "blames Prohibition for everything," 34; demise? 128;

Cubanelli, Vito
99, Hicks's hatmaker;

Curly Bill Spin
42, The road agent's spin, also known as the "Curly Bill spin" (after Curly Bill Brocius) or the "Border roll", was a gunfighting maneuver first identified in the days of the Old West. It was utilized as a ruse when forced to surrender a side arm to an unfriendly party. Wikipedia

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