Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission was flying captive balloons last week over its Nevada test site. Magnesium flares, burned at varying altitudes, would simulate atom bombs and indicate how high a bomb could be exploded without blinding auto drivers on the highways of southern Nevada...
Oldtimers on the auto-racing circuit remember Alfieri Maserati as a querulous Latin who spent as much time crying the faults of cars as he did driving them. His dissatisfaction drove him and his brothers to building their own racers, and the cars were almost unbeatable. Maseratis have had their slow moments in the 30 years since; Alfieri is dead and his brothers have long since sold the factory. But the hand-tooled cars still carry the family name, and they are again almost unbeatable. Last week, as the racing season shifted noisily into high gear, the experts were already...
...radio-tv business anything, even honesty, goes--as long as it sells the sponsor's product. But it tells its small story with economy and skill. When Herb Fuller, who dispenses sermons, homey philosophy, and slightly off-color stories on a daily program, kills himself in an auto wreck, a young radio reporter is tabbed as his replacement. The reporter's first assignment, on which the future of his career depends, is to prepare a memorial show about the deceased great man. In interviewing the people who worked with Fuller he discovers, however, that the idol of millions of fans...
...Roulette Room of Miami Beach's Monte Carlo Hotel one morning last week, the leaders of big labor closed in on the chief of their biggest affiliate, hefty, bullet-headed Dave Beck, president of the 1,400,000 Teamsters. With the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther looking over his shoulder, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany laid it on the line: "Look, Dave, you brought this on yourselves. We wouldn't have had to take this up now if you guys hadn't refused to testify...
Lagging appliance sales forced General Motors' Frigidaire division to furlough 1,700 men, and G.M.'s auto-assembly lines slowed down, as Buick produced 13,000 fewer cars in January than it did in the same month last year. But for those who watched the overall course of the U.S. auto market, there were plenty of other statistics last week to prove that consumers were still buying heavily.* Despite the G.M. reduction, total U.S. auto production was 5% higher in January than in 1956. Chrysler jumped 23%. Ford 25%. And with the best January sales record...