Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point of Departure. Arriving on the waterfront, Brown jumped from his car, plunged through the low-hanging fog to the point where hundreds of workmen were converging on the Star & Crescent ferry slip, ready to ride to their Navy shipyard jobs on North Island. "I'm Pat Brown!" cried Candidate Brown, reaching for workmen's hands as if they were gold nuggets. One, two, three workmen hurried past, heads down, clutching their lunch boxes, leaving Pat's hand dangling in midair. A ferry attendant came up, told...
...Chrysler engines with a total of 850 h.p., Marion ("Mickey") Thompson, 29, a pressman for the Los Angeles Times, whistled at 272.3 m.p.h. over Utah's Bonneville salt flats in the 10th national speed trials, the fastest speed ever recorded by an American driver or an American-built car...
...CREDIT CARD for restaurants, shops, car rental, etc., round the world is planned by Hilton Hotels. Corporation already has 1,000,000 holders of credit cards used in Hilton's 33 hotels alone, last year did $60 million business with them...
...thing that might affect union strategy was an abnormal slump last week in new-car sales. Despite the fact that output has been low-4,288,907 cars this model year compared to 6,212,291 in 1957-the backlog of cars in dealers' hands was still high. With production cut back, the United Auto Workers had expected a quick sellout of 1958 models with resultant pressure on the companies to settle so that the dealers could get 1959 cars to sell. But with car sales sliding, the cleanup of 1958 cars will take more time than expected...
Died. Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner, 68, youth-defying British auto racer, first light-car driver (in a souped-up MG) to crack 200 m.p.h., holder at his death of four international records; in Eastbourne, England. "To cut wind resistance, I drive on my stomach," said Goldie Gardner. "A poor chap in an American hot rod has to sit upright-frightfully drafty." Flat out, Gardner, at a youthful 61, set 16 records in one day on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1951, 21 more (in one week) the next year...