Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flagman Edward J. Mulvihill tried the brake; when it failed he ordered the passengers from their berths, told them to lie flat on the floor. For 3½ miles and about five minutes, they lived a common bad dream. The car teetered at 50 m.p.h. around Bennington Curve (where the Pennsylvania's Red Arrow had killed 24 in a wreck ten nights before), highballed a mile and a half more and took off into a mountainside. When it was over, brave Porter Lee Keys Jr., who had gone back to fight the handbrake on the rear platform, was dead...
...presidential bootblack. He bent over the shoes of stern Plutarco Elias Calles, of genial Emilio Portes Gil, of absent-minded Abelardo Rodriguez. He went on the palace payroll ($45 a month). Courtly Pasquel Ortiz Rubio sent the presidential limousine for him. President Cardenas bought him a specially made English car that he could drive himself. Avila Camacho paid off a $300 mortgage on his house...
When Viscount Mountbatten, India's new Viceroy, skidded and bounced his car off the road near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the ex-Commandoman jumped out, stuck up his thumb, hitched to London in a passing bus, which got him there for a date with the Prime Minister...
...face of it, the deal seemed to be a rather severe rebuke for Continental. But Continental was so suspiciously quiet that Detroit guessed it was glad to get rid of the job. Car makers felt that Continental could make motors faster than K-F could use them and so could not make money on the comparatively small production K-F could absorb. Nor was the outlook for bigger K-F production bright. The straight-from-the-shoulder facts last week were that, even in a still tight auto market, Kaisers and Frazers were not selling too well...
...reason for this odd situation in the otherwise booming automobile market was K-F's "newness," which was its biggest selling point at first. Buyers, seeing a chance to get tried-&-true cars after a wait of a few months, have become so wary of the new K-F that salesmen are chorusing: "The only thing new is the body, and it's not radical." But the biggest reason for lagging K-F sales is price. Competing automakers reckon that the Kaiser and Frazer should sell for around $1,600. But the Kaiser...