Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blonde Hazel Gardner, 39, is the Equitable Credit Corporation's only woman auto finance manager, and for three years she has run its Savannah office as well as any man. But 15 months ago, a loud, cigar-chewing, Savannah car-rental operator, R. J. Bedgood, skipped town, leaving Hazel and her office holding the bag for $20,000 in mortgages on missing automobiles. After a year of investigating, Hazel developed one slim lead: Bedgood had once been a construction worker and might be working somewhere in the construction business...
...should lock those guys in their rooms after every practice," said the fiery coach upon hearing of the loss of two starters. Monk Aiello, diminutive attackman, was burned in a freak blaze Saturday, and defense stalwart Ed Sexton was hurt in a weekend auto accident. Other starters Jim Telfer and Pete Palches are still on the inactive list because of vacation injuries...
Chicago's Allstate Insurance Co., a Sears, Roebuck subsidiary and third largest of the independents, also chopped its rates. Premiums on cars driven by high-school youths in 44 states will be shaved 15%, provided each youngster completes an auto safety course of 30 classroom hours and six hours behind the wheel (while more than 6,000 of the nation's 25,000 high schools offer such courses, only 350,000 of the 2,000,000 students who come of driving age each year take them...
...with the Du Pont Co., the last two as director of synthetic fiber sales, Malcolm Jones went off to meet a new challenge-the chance to "run my own show." He became president of Manhattan's Robbins Mills, Inc., maker of synthetic fabrics for everything from clothing to auto upholstery and bulletproof vests...
Stormy Weather. In Wichita, when Robert Steven refused to push a stalled car from a flooded intersection for fear his own auto would stall, eight angry men piled out, ripped the hood ornament off Steven's auto and poured water on the back seat...