Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than three-quarters of the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race was behind him at 2:01 p.m., C.D.T. on Memorial Day, and handsome Sam Hanks was right where he wanted to be: in front of the pack. Now, for the first time, he began to worry. A veteran of eleven unsuccessful attempts at the "big spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would...
...chief reasons for the industry's drop in index is the disappointing performance of the auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice...
Last week, the government took its first real step toward selling this profitable empire. Free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard announced that the Volkswagen auto works, the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), will be sold to small stockholders, and the deal will set the pattern for the later sale of other state-run giants...
...life Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca, 17th Marquis de Portago, thirsted for thrills. He found them in speed and sport. He was tempted by any activity tinged with danger, finally decided that the second-to-second uncertainty of auto racing brought him nearest to his heart's desire. When he wheeled his 3.8 liter fire-red Ferrari into the start of Italy's Mille Miglia last week, "Fons" de Portago was a happy man. Perhaps (although none can say) he died...
...record. To house them, 1,278 new hotels or pensions have opened in the past year, and airports and railroad stations throughout the peninsula will list every local hotel on an electric board (red lights for a full house, green lights for vacancies). For motorists, the Italian Auto Club has opened 16 autostelli motels ($6 a night...