Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next two weeks O'Mahoney plans to summon competing auto-parts manufacturers, followed by complaining G.M. auto dealers, then wind up with top corporation officers led off by his star witness: G.M.'s President Harlow Curtice...
...read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much of a hit with His reform." Editor Smith appealed the decision to the State Supreme Court and won a reversal. In 1948, after an ex-G.I. had been killed in an auto collision with a man just acquitted of bootlegging charges, she roasted the jury for leniency; the editorial won the year's top award of the National Federation of Press Women...
...GERMAN AUTO BOOM is slowing down as a result of new tariff regulations by other European nations, e.g., Belgium and Sweden. Two big German automakers, Borgward and Goliath, are laying off workers. Giant Volkswagen will cut to a five-day work week early next year...
Scott envisages a new treatment for the three plays, which are "Auto da Fe," "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," and "27 Wagons Full of Cotton." Scott hopes to bring out, "but the use of erotic sets and thumping drums," two themes of Williams: the fight for purity and the sex problem...
...many auto engineers, the free-piston engine could be the logical transition to the gas turbine. Most of the mechanical bugs in a small gas turbine for cars have already been eliminated. Chrysler, for example, has been testing a gas-turbine car on Detroit streets for months. Nevertheless, engineers estimate that the mass-produced gas-turbine auto is still at least ten years away. One reason is that heat-resisting alloys needed for turbine engines are still far too short for mass production. But the biggest reason is the economics of the auto in dustry. The industry has to progress...