Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left government service. When the treasury sent him the President's customary $4,000 monthly check for "special expenses," hf turned it back and said he would get along on his salary as he always had. He refused to accept five 1953 cars presented by Mexico City auto dealers. When a policeman stopped his chauffeur from making an illegal U turn, the President had the cop publicly commended...
Time after time, the flyers circle the field on instruments and slant into cautious approaches to the landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...difficulty of competing with giants. He has been doing it since he first went into business in 1925 in a one-car garage in Detroit. Son of a German paint manufacturer, Reichhold had come to the motor capital a year earlier, attracted by the exciting new Du Pont auto finishes. He spent three years as supervisor of Ford's paint manufacturing plant, but on the side, with a $10,000 stake from his father, began boiling synthetic resins experimentally in a kettle in a friend's garage. He used a formula developed by his father's chemist...
...rise in auto inventories to a new postwar high of 13.2 cars a dealer...
...open-throttle British auto race for the $40 million export market to the U.S., Rootes Motors' hard-driving Sir William Rootes (Hillman Minx, Humber, Rover, Sunbeam-Talbot) had already knocked Austin out of second place. Last week Sir William claimed that he had overtaken Lord Nuffield,* was now shipping more cars to the U.S. than any other British maker. His total: 4,942 Rootes cars exported in the first half...