Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other auto race in the U.S. quite compares to the Sebring grind. It is the only American competition that counts toward the World Sports Car Championship. Sebring's 5.2 miles of brief straightaways, wicked switchbacks and unbanked turns are as trying for men as they are on machines. Points scored at Sebring are so prized by the racing fraternity that the world's best drivers compete there, although the race is without cash prizes...
...HARLOW CURTICE, who predicted 5,800,000 auto sales for 1955, now thinks he was pessimistic. On the basis of current sales, says Curtice, 1955's market should total 6,600,000 cars, up 20% from 1954, may well top the alltime record 6,665,863 sold...
...exposing the realistic prospects for harnessing the nuclear horses, Woodbury has unfortunately chosen to write in bite-sized sentences of annoying simplicity. But if the book is as pre-digested as Gerber's baby-food, it presents some sobering facts about adult dreams: atomic autos, helicopters, and railroad trains. Men who contemplate their future autos probably give their atomic Ford the mental shape of a Thunderbird. Actually, as Woodbury points out, any atomic car would have to carry fifty tons of metal shielding, giving the auto the shape and price of a Stanley Steamer...
...auto sales keeping up with the record-breaking auto production? Last week the nation's dealers gave the answer: in the first eight weeks of 1955 they had pushed sales up to almost 1,000,000 cars, about 40% above last year and an alltime peak. Predicted Ford Economist George Hitchings: first-quarter sales will total 1,580,000 cars, 33% better than...
...months ago a customer walked into Horace Mendelsohn's auto-accessories shop in Stockport, near Manchester, England and bought two motorcycle tires, paying seven shillings, sixpence ($1.05) below the list price. Three days later, Cut-rater Mendelsohn learned that his "customer" was a private investigator for the British Motor Trade Association. He got a summons to appear before the association's Price Protection Committee on a charge of price cutting. The committee, a private court staffed with lawyers paid by the association, weighed Mendelsohn's case carefully, penalized him by putting his shop on the "Stop List...