Word: brakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slightly Used. In Pittsburgh, Barbara W. Ford notified police that her car had been stolen, received it eight days later minus engine, five wheels, five tires, three brake drums, one battery, two tail lights, and two floor mats...
Just before January exams came the traditional mid-season sales: Raccoon coats were slashed to as low as $245, two-wheel brake Oakland roadsters ran about $839, and those essential commodities--gloves...
...Brake on the Pentagon. Coudert's proposition made good political fodder in an election year. But it was recklessly irresponsible. The Coudert amendment had nothing to do with appropriations; it arbitrarily clapped a tight brake on the rate at which the military may dip into its kitty to accept and pay for finished weapons for the U.S. armed forces. Of the $52.5 billion that the Pentagon had planned to spend this year, $14.1 billion is for fixed costs such as troop pay and maintenance; $10.8 billion is for military equipment too close to delivery to be canceled; the balance...
...driver's commands are simple and horsy: "Gee" for right, "Haw" for left, "Whoa" (more hopefully than convincingly) for stop. A steel-toothed prong, controlled by a foot pedal, digs into the snow to make the "Whoa" stick, but most drivers believe that the grinding noise of the brake, rather than its retarding effect, is the only thing that will stop an eager 35-to 85-lb. sled...
...take over the job, took a strong hand in bank affairs. His son stepped down to the vice presidency. In as president, to salvage the bank's reputation, came one of Denver's first citizens, Albert N. Williams, 63, ex-president of Western Union and Westinghouse Air Brake...