Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the tide ebbed, the first invading wave of cars whisked along the rim of the sand. Loudspeakers blatted. Whistles skirled. The racket of racing engines woke the town. For the next two weeks the annual speed trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing turned Daytona Beach, Fla. into a motorized madhouse...
...seemed to mind. The U.S. public has come to worship high-performance cars, and here were the latest sleek and high-powered family autos performing at their rarely possible, full-throttle best. For the first time since 1936, when stock car racing began at Daytona, last week's speed trials seemed like the high old times of the early '20s, when every auto factory sponsored a racing stable. Here once more were big names of auto racing-Mauri...
Rose, Pete de Paolo, Lou Moore-not driving, but riding herd on an anxious manufacturer's best mechanics, coaching teams of professional drivers. Each was out to prove that the car he was handling was the nimblest and/or fastest on the road (leaving it to the auto industry's pitchmen to explain that added speed somehow means added safety...
CHRYSLER COMEBACK is losing some of its steam. While General Motors (with 53% of the market) has cut back production 6% and Ford (with 26%) has cut back 16%, Chrysler production has slumped 29% from its 1955 pace, now holds only 17% of the auto market v. 19% at this time last year. Biggest loser: Dodge, down 50% from...
...AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...