Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the death of Auto Racer Mike Hawthorn in an ordinary accident on an ordinary road last winter, Britain's fastest, most expert drivers have pretty much throttled down out on the highway, with one exception: Countess Attlee, 63, wife of and longtime driver for former Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Last week Lady Attlee, whose cool daring behind the wheel gave newsmen a run for their copy during election campaigns, had a bit of bad luck, cracked a collarbone in a collision at a North London crossroads known as "Danger Junction." It was her fifth crash in four years...
...Board and a leader of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council; Truck Driver J. D. Sims, 35, who admitted to an Arkansas Gazette reporter that he had placed three sticks of dynamite under Fire Chief Nalley's car and thrown ten sticks into the school board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel G. Beavers, 49, a carpenter at the state mental hospital; and Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced that a fourth dynamite attempt (against an office building occupied...
TIRE PRICE INCREASES for auto and truck tires are coming soon. Truck manufacturers have been notified of 3-5% price hikes, and passenger-car-tire increases are expected...
...college and gives the rest marketable skills. But hundreds of schools are "special." New York City has outright detention camps for delinquents-and it also has the exquisitely superior Bronx High School of Science (TIME, May 5, 1958). Some urban schools teach 90% of their students to be auto mechanics and beauticians. Some suburban schools send 90% of their students to top colleges...
...fast and furiously that his stock has risen in value from $20 million to $200 million, and he has rocketed back to become Germany's No. 2 industrialist (after Alfried Krupp). Seeking a smaller car for the Mercedes line, Flick had Daimler buy 88% of the competing Auto Union company, which puts out the D.K.W. buggy (Manhattan price: $1,995). Counting Auto Union's sales of $120 million yearly, Flick's Daimler complex now ranks as the world's fifth-biggest automaker (after the U.S. Big Three and American Motors...