Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not the plan actually results in another 100,000 new houses, it should at least give housing a solid push along its road to recovery. From last year's disappointing record of 990,000 starts, home building jumped in January to an annual rate of 1,030,000 starts, about 3% better than expected. Although storms and snow chilled the pace in February and March, builders point to a continuing uptrend in the South and West, expect the first sign of spring to thaw out a rush of weather-stalled starts...
...CHRYSLERS with quickie retrimming job will be wheeled out this month to combat sales slump. Windsor, Saratoga and New Yorker models will have splashier trim all around, sweeping chrome strips along side and rear panels, plus mascara-like black paint around headlights for "space age effect...
AMERICAN MOTORS, already well along comeback trail, will pick up more speed with Government contract for its light (1,500 Ibs.), jeeplike Mighty Mite, which can hit 60 m.p.h. with aluminum, V4, air-cooled engine. First order: $5.6 million for tooling and 250 vehicles for Marine Corps, but Detroit says much bigger orders are coming...
Peeling off his navy blue overcoat, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther stepped briskly along the fifth floor of General Motors' Detroit headquarters, blinked at photographers' flash bulbs and wheeled into pastel-colored conference room No. 5-202. There, trading handshakes and he-man jokes with 13 deputies of his own U.A.W. and 15 G.M. bargainers, he sat down to hammer out the auto industry's first new labor contract since 1955. Cracked Reuther to G.M. Vice President Louis G. Seaton, as he slipped behind a chipped wooden table: "Well, it's the same...
...miles down the road, he skidded into a ditch and overturned. Though no one was badly hurt, the car was wrecked. Wrathfully. the chief returned to the dealer and demanded a new car because, he said, the wrecked one had been bewitched. As an expert witness he brought along a witch doctor, who corroborated every word. To preserve his good will in the area, the harassed dealer had no recourse but to give the chief a new car-and wonder what would happen to the auto insurance market in Guin...