Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...News Fits ... In Chillicothe, Mo., while publicizing an auto safety inspection campaign, the daily Constitution-Tribune sent its office station wagon through the check line, got back a report: no emergency brake, faulty muffler, dim signal lights, missing taillight. badly adjusted foot brakes, two broken windows...
...upsurge in highway and heavy construction more than doubled H. K. Porter's first half 1955 net to $4,000,000 in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. rolled up profits of $26.2 million, 69% above a year ago. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. nearly doubled its net to $12.5 million...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wy., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...
Later in the month the results of a poll in 14 universities gave the CRIMSON cause to brake all form with a big banner headline: "Students Cast Overwhelming Wet Vote." 15,000 of the 24,000 polled had indicated that they at least drank; and of Harvard's 3,500 polled, more than half of the 2,600 who drank admitted drunkenness. One student even scribbled on his poll, "I'd rather be tight than President...
...Hart Brake Motel (Homer and Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...