Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egypt's King Farouk, who loves flashy cars (he owns a flock of red & black limousines), planned to add a utilitarian touch to his collection: he ordered twelve red jeeps, four for general work around the palace grounds, eight equipped with chrome bumpers, red leather seats, white metal wheels and fire sirens, to escort his personal car...
Bittersweet. Railroad equipment makers built 10,387 freight cars for domestic use in June, for the first time this year reached their goal of 10,000 cars a month. But S. M. Felton, president of the American Railway Car Institute, was still unhappy. Dwindling steel deliveries, said he, threaten to put July production below the goal...
Paul Whiteman, 57, "King of Jazz" of the '20s, suffered superficial injuries and a $5 fine for careless driving when he smashed his car against a telephone pole near Williamstown...
Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
...Flivver. Ford Motor Co., which had upped the price of its 1949 Ford by $85 to $125, last week ordered its dealers to figure their markups (25%) on the old prices (thus cutting their profit by an average $25-per-car). The grey market was already placing a far different price structure on the new Ford. On "used" car lots, new models were selling at $3,000 (the Detroit-delivered price ranges from...