Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The building costs for these broad, eight-to 36-in.-thick roads average $1,141,000 per mile. Columbia Professor William Vickrey says that the "subsidy" on some expressways is as much as 10? per car-mile, roughly equal to the vehicle's operating cost. On balance, however, the...
With due ceremony, the Denison, Texas, school board decided to rename the local high school in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower, 74, who was born in that little two-story frame house near the tracks. Would Ike attend? He'd be delighted. So everything was arranged, until some townspeople...
General Motors has won a significant decision in the case of the controversial Corvairs. Some 85 suits have been brought against G.M. by victims-and dependents of victims-injured in accidents involving Corvairs built in the 1960-63 model years. Almost all claim that the car's rear axle...
Suits & More Suits. The Florida accident occurred in 1963, as State Legislators James T. Russell and David C. Anderson were driving home to St. Petersburg from a session of the legislature in Tallahassee. On U.S. Highway 19, Russell's 1962 Corvair Monza went out of control and overturned, hurling...
G.M. put up a thoroughgoing defense. It hired St. Petersburg Attorney Robert Nunez and another local lawyer, dispatched two G.M. general counsels from Detroit, also sent down G.M. Engineer Horatio Shakespeare. To counter the claim that the Corvair's doors were weak, the company brought in a metallurgist from...