Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concentrating on the pool, Pritchard made such exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...
Having upped its share of the auto market from 15% to nearly 21% with its high-finned, flying-wedge "forward look," Chrysler Corp. is in no hurry to make any drastic changes. But while keeping the same finned look, President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert announced some innovations in 1958 models designed to attract still more buyers. One noticeable style change is the addition of "control tower" windshields that wrap up into the roof as well as around, making it easier to see overhead traffic lights. New accessories include a rear-view mirror on the left front fender that...
...auto industry as a whole, Colbert was highly optimistic. He foresees auto sales next year of more than 6,000,000 cars. There was good reason for his optimism. Ward's Automotive Reports said last week that September new-car sales "are exceeding all expectations." They are racing 10% ahead of last month and nearly 20% ahead of September 1956. Detroit took the cue, promptly stepped up production schedules...
...mechanical engineer, pioneer automobile buff, who taught Franklin D. Roosevelt how to drive; in Newark, N.J. On Feb. 12, 1908, while thousands of waving spectators roared hoarsely, Roberts climbed into a Thomas Flyer, yanked down his goggles and dusted out of Times Square, pitted against five other massive autos in the first New York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July 30, 26 days ahead...
...fastest-growing segment of the West German auto industry (world's No. 2, after the U.S.) is the midget-car business. Last week crowds at the opening of the 38th International Automobile Fair in Frankfurt hurried past the halls filled with big, sleek U.S. models, slowed down only slightly in the rooms where a new Porsche hardtop convertible, a new face-lifted Mercedes, Opels, Volkswagens and other German-made regular cars were on display. They finally came to a halt and milled around in the pavilion where midget-auto makers, some of them motorcycle manufacturers, were showing a half...