Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million U.S. car owners who already spend $3 billion yearly on auto liability insurance will soon have to pay about $400 million more. Speaking for three of the biggest casualty companies-State Farm Mutual, Allstate. Nationwide Mutual-General Manager Vestal Lemmon of the National Association of Independent Insurers said: "Before the end of the year the western half of the country will see substantial increases. It may be the second quarter of 1957 before they get to the eastern areas." Another top rate-making group, the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters (Aetna Casualty, Travelers, U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty), had already tipped...
...Harvard police department, meanwhile, has sent out postcards to auto owners requesting them to list their parking lot on the card. This is part of the University's drive to force students to keep their cars off the street at night...
...everything about the X-2 worked perfectly, he would attain the maximum speed of which the airplane was capable at the assigned altitude. No one expected him to do as well as that. The chances were as heavily against it as if he had scheduled a record-breaking auto tour from New York to Los Angeles that depended on reaching every traffic light just when it turned green...
...Pontiac has its sleek Safari models, prettied up even more than last year. And Buick will bring out a brand-new design, with low, racy lines like a hardtop convertible. Said Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale: "Hardtop styling has proved to be the most popular body design in auto history. This year we are combining it with station-wagon spaciousness...
With the move to the suburbs, more leisure and bigger families, so many Americans are driving station wagons that production this year will hit 471,000 cars -11% of the total auto market. So far, Ford has captured over 40% of the market with 268,712 wagons in 1956. Now G.M. is getting set to make its big push. Oldsmobile is scheduling 10% of its production in station wagons; Pontiac hopes to sell 64,000, and Buick expects to add another 65,000-about 10% of its production-to the totals...