Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that only one California-bred colt had ever won in the-previous 79 runnings of the Derby, made California-bred Correlation the 3-to-1 favorite for No. So. There was talk of another Derby jinx: no grey colt has ever won, and Kentucky-bred Determine, owned by California Auto Dealer Andrew Crevolin, was undeniably a grey...
FORD OF CANADA has done even better than its U.S. big brother so far in 1954. It has not only pushed ahead of Canadian General Motors in the low-priced field, but also in percentage of the total auto market. Totals: Ford, 53,508 cars and trucks, up 37% to 40.9% of the market; G.M., 50,945 cars and trucks, down 18% to 40.5% of the market...
Pont from $56.7 million to a whopping $73.8 million. In the auto industry, General Motors roared ahead with profits of $189 million, $38 million better than in 1953, rang up the second highest first-quarter sales record (705,303 passenger cars) in history. Some companies had slipped. U.S. Steel dropped $4.6 million to $44.8 million, and the railroads were down. The pressure was also on the independent automakers, and they did poorly. Studebaker lost $6,000,000 and passed its dividend. Nash lost $750,000, Packard $380,000 during the first three months. Kaiser reported that it had lost...
...recent weeks, Chicken-lickens have been rubbing their heads all across the U.S. It started last month at Bellingham (pop. 34,000), in northwest Washington, not far from where the first flying saucer was sighted. Auto owners noticed pockmarks, some as small as pin heads, others as big as peanuts, on the outer surfaces of their windshields. At first the victims blamed vandals, then ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread...
...Joseph L. McAndrew, 38, a slender housewife from Watch Hill, R.I., had her eleventh successful Caesarean operation (a world record, A.M.A. archives indicated) in 14 years of marriage. Ten children are living; one was killed in an auto accident...