Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auto sales race this year, Ford hopes to bump Chevrolet out of first place, Buick aims to take over third from Plymouth. Last week, as the first-quarter production returns were in, both Ford and Buick were out in front of their competitors. In the first three months, Ford turned out 369,620 cars while Chevrolet made 358,769. Buick's production of 131,-775 was well ahead of Plymouth...
...Hollywood, the Breen Office suggested that Producer Leonard Goldstein remove from his new film. Princess of the Nile, certain scenes in which Cinemactress Debra Paget performs bumps and grinds while dancing. Protested Goldstein: "The Egyptians didn't call those movements bumps and grinds. We are now arguing with the Breen Office as to what is a bump and what is a grind...
...whole Commonwealth in the red. Convinced that he is faced with that threat, Rab Butler made it his immediate concern to brace the Commonwealth for trouble. Explained a British Treasury man: "The dollar market is the father, and when father turns, we turn, but with a bigger bump on the edges of the bed, where we are, than in the middle, where he is." One method of cushioning the bump is to strengthen the Commonwealth economy by new development. Butler announced an "audacious" British policy of investment in Commonwealth projects...
...weeks in Manhattan, that routed out some 4,000 Angelenos a night for a month last summer. It had already made three visits to Europe, leaving such cities as London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Milan and Barcelona with the notion that the gadget-happy Americans might have a culture bump, after...
...divisions are planning record years. Buick wants to bump Plymouth out of third place in the industry (while Ford wants to bump Chewy out of first...