Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident...
...tied to la buoy in Buzzard's Bay. She is a fifteen foot Hereshoff sailboat which first tasted sak water in 1898. confessing to a great sentimental attachment for the skiff, Cheever doubts that he'll ever give it up. "I guess I'm sort of like an auto enthusiast with an antique...
...reach a behind-the-scenes agreement on Murray's successor, top union leaders threw the fight on to the floor of the 14th C.I.O. convention. There, in a roll-call vote, the C.I.O. elected its third president, stocky, redheaded Walter Reuther, since 1946 president of the United Auto Workers...
...room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia's Gorky auto plant...
...Tucker Auto Case, in which Promotor Preston Tucker's company went bankrupt before his rear-engine car got into mass production. SEC, said the committee, had waited too long in exposing the Tucker Corp.'s misleading statements about its solvency and prospects: "Had it done so, part of the loss which the investing public sustained in the Tucker case might have been averted...