Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American people sit back and allow Hoffa and his gang to corrupt America's labor and laborer...
SMALL STATION WAGON will roll out from American Motors this fall with same 100-in. wheelbase as smallest Rambler. Wagon will be about 3 ft. shorter than most other models. Price: roughly...
...SWAP is being negotiated by Pan American and National airlines. Pan Am plans to lease at least one of its Boeing 707s to National every winter, when National's Miami business picks up. National would lease DC-8s to Pan Am in summer for busy North Atlantic route. Deal would allow National to make three jet round trips daily to Miami during coming Florida season, race ahead of competing Eastern and Northeast with first pure jets on route...
...Goldie Gardner, 68, youth-defying British auto racer, first light-car driver (in a souped-up MG) to crack 200 m.p.h., holder at his death of four international records; in Eastbourne, England. "To cut wind resistance, I drive on my stomach," said Goldie Gardner. "A poor chap in an American hot rod has to sit upright-frightfully drafty." Flat out, Gardner, at a youthful 61, set 16 records in one day on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1951, 21 more (in one week) the next year...
...cups. Medievalist White has small use for the modern world, and bitterly resents Britain's decline. He is likely to poke a horny forefinger into the nearest American chest and hiss dramatically, "You pinched my bloody empire from me." A tormented man, by turns merry and melancholy, Tim White admits to a lifelong inferiority complex. Spurred by fear, he pushed himself into physical adventure. He has piloted a plane, learned to skindive with ill-fated Commander Crabb, stayed awake three days and nights to achieve mastery over a fierce, untamed hawk (The Goshawk...