Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Hong Kong driver is Chang Yu-cheng, 35, who began learning auto mechanics as an apprentice in Shanghai at the age of 15. He considers Hong Kong, with its well-enforced traffic regulations, a much easier place to drive in than Shanghai, with its ped-icab-ricksha-clogged streets. On the other hand, Tokyo traffic, reports Bureau Chief Dwight Martin, is without doubt the most reckless, dangerous and completely unpredictable of any major city in the world. The special peril, he adds, are the taxis - darting, speeding little engines of destruction. The man who braves these...
...President Mason, 63, has an initial order for 20,000 of his new Metropolitans, and if it goes over may set up a line in the U.S. to produce the car. A pudgy (240 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.), moon-faced engineer, he climbed up through the auto industry working for Studebaker, Dodge, Chrysler, then took over Kelvinator Corp. in 1927, at a time when the company was overexpanded and losing money. Mason turned the losses into profit, then had the job to do all over again in 1936 when Kelvinator merged with Nash, which was losing...
AUTOMAKERS are pulling out of India because of government import restrictions aimed at building a domestic auto manufacturing industry. Both General Motors and Ford of Canada will close down their Bombay assembly plants, the first and second largest in India...
...Fall of Valor. In Jacksonville, county officials welcomed Harley Knight, 37, after he drove all the way from Durham, N.C. to answer a stolen-car charge, then learned that he had stolen another auto to make the trip...
...Dispossessed. In Salisbury, MdM seeking compensation, Motorist Lester Brittingham reported to the State Farm Insurance Co. that his parked auto had been severely bitten on the fender by a horse, won a $5 settlement...