Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owes to dogs for the use he made of them in perfecting his blue-baby operation. Squeaky, a seven-month old female Rottweiler, was suspected of having a heart defect. Examination by Blalock and Pediatrician Helen Taussig showed that the trouble was really an intestinal block from an auto accident. Decision: immediate surgery. Time for operation, performed by Surgeon Blalock, in the animal operating room of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1½ hours. The patient did fine...
Throughout the state, the tourist surge is building much more . than ' hotels. Straight new highways are springing up to accommodate the tourists, 80% of whom come in by auto. The southern one-third of the abuilding 390-mile, $242 million Miami-Orlando-Jacksonville Parkway is already open for business...
Businessmen looking for clues to 1958 prospects closely watched pre-Christmas retail and auto sales. Both were encouraging. On the day after Thanksgiving, sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, jumped nearly 8% above the post-Thanksgiving day last year. Chicago's State Street was so jammed with shoppers that the downtown police detail was doubled to 100 to control the crowd. In downtown Atlanta, retailers said sales were well ahead of last year. Los Angeles stores reported "very good" business...
Instead of covering an auto wreck, Ben Reddick soon learned, he had been present for the last act of a murder. The fishstand owner who had come close to drilling Reddick had just pumped three bullets into his wife. He had turned on the gas jets in their apartment and was gunning for a neighbor when the building exploded. Pursued by the crazed husband, the neighbor saved his life-and almost cost Reddick his-by diving to the ground at the newsman's feet...
Another worry is Detroit's auto industry. Detroit still expects to sell 6,200,000 cars this year and about the same number next year. This week it is scheduling the highest production since December 1956. Sales for the first ten days of November were 10% better than last year, but the industry will not know how the 1958 models are going over for another two or three weeks. Ford's new Edsel is a disappointment so far. But Ford's other cars are doing well, and General Motors' President Harlow Curtice says that "the initial...