Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars that rolled onto the hard sands of Daytona Beach last week for the eighth annual safety and performance trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Rating, Inc. were-as the admen promised-roomier, lower and more powerfully propelled than ever before. To some of the spectators who crowded the dunes and gabbled knowingly of racing cams and fuel injection and four-barrel carburetors, the competition was a sporting event. To auto-industry pitchmen, it was the beginning of a multimillion-dollar campaign designed to keep a performance-happy public popeyed and buying...
...Disappointment. Calling the competing cars "stock" models, to imply that they are the same as any on view in the showrooms, was playing fast and loose with auto-show language. Many of the cars at Daytona contained special power packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands...
...Class Seven, with engines of 350 cu. in. and over, was dominated, as expected, by Chrysler 300-C, aristocratic "bomb" of the auto industry. It traveled the flying mile with its 392-cu. in., 375-h.p. engine logged at 134.128 m.p.h., 5.245 miles slower than last year's Chrysler 300-B with a smaller engine. In acceleration tests (a mile run from a standing start) the 300-C set a new record of 86.873 m.p.h. The hefty 300-h.p., 364-cu. in. Buick Century ran second in the flying mile with a creditable 130.766 m.p.h., but in acceleration...
...actual condition of the patient justify such pessimism? Despite a few soft spots, e.g., carloadings, machine tools, paperboard, the U.S. economy was still operating at peak rates. After the second-best January in history, February auto production is expected to run nearly 4% ahead of last year...
Married. Susan Hayward (real name: Edythe Marrener), 37, red-haired cinemactress (I'll Cry Tomorrow); and Floyd Eaton Chalkley, 47, Carrollton, Ga. attorney and auto dealer; both for the second time; in Phoenix, Ariz...