Word: carlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smartening Up Mummy. To become teachers, most of the 29 men gave up higher-paying jobs. Ernest Knight, 43, has six children, earned $2,800 a year as a textile salesman. His income for the next two years will be $588, and he has sold his car to help squeak by ("I know I've made the right decision"). A father of two, David Miller, 37, not only sold his grocery store, but got his wife to attend college as well. "We're budgeted to the last penny," says he. "Our kids will get threepenny ice-cream cones...
...Hurley are having their woes in the business of making aircraft engines, but when it comes to press releases, they fly high. Month ago, with sales down from $599 million in 1957 to $389 million in 1958 and still slumping, C-W displayed a "revolutionary" new air-car for U.S. travelers, a vehicle that has no wheels, but zooms along at 60 m.p.h. just off the ground on a cushion of compressed...
Last week there was no further word of air-car production or of orders. But Chairman Hurley had another innovation to announce. Calling in the press, he displayed (but did not demonstrate) a radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos...
Diminishing Returns. In Pittsburgh, John James, 19, was arrested for stealing one car, stealing a second to push the first when it broke down, then siphoning gas from a third after the second...
...Response. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Frank Erickson was fined $300 after chasing a woman driver with an exhaust whistle on his car going full blast, frightening her so badly she drove her car into a river...