Word: carlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary, and too gas-thirsty compared to British makes. In fact, last year's 650-car U.S. import quota was not even filled...
...first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke trucks and antique autos clung stolidly to lanes reserved for fast traffic. Scores of cars, not up to the pace or to the handling they got, gasped to a halt-as often as not on the pavement-with burst tires, smoking engines or empty fuel tanks. In the first five hours there were more than 100 breakdowns. The motor of one car dropped out. Emergency...
...average speeds of 50-60 m.p.h., while many trucks that had flocked to M-1 returned to safer, slower routes. Then, one fog-shrouded morning on the motorway's northern reaches, a chain reaction took place. A disabled truck pulled to the side of the road, and a car stopped behind it; a police "breakdown van" pulled in to help. A truck piled into the breakdown van and the truck driver was killed. Another truck piled into the wreckage and its driver too was killed...
...heard of airplanes, but could never see one from the closed ward. We got so excited looking at this one that we didn't look where we were going, and Amy fell down." A man kept going to the parking lots, sitting in unlocked cars. Eventually, he broke a silence of years to explain: he could not imagine how a car would work without a gearshift lever on the floor...
RENAULT SALES in the U.S. topped Volkswagen monthly total for first time in September, 9,439 cars to 8,654. But Volkswagen is still leading foreign-car seller for first nine months, with 82,755 cars to 65,244 for Renault...