Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebels held their best prisoner bag of the 21-month-long fight: one major, four captains, twelve lieutenants; they liberated almost 300 soldier prisoners through the International Red Cross. Their weapons position was improving. In the summer counterattack they took good booty-500 pieces, including five bazookas, an armored car, two flak guns...
...Detroit was through alibiing for '58. It knew all the reasons by heart: the recession, the loss of car prestige (and keeping up with the Joneses in other ways), high prices, too much chrome, those foreign cars, lack of salesmanship...
...Restyling is widespread (at a total cost of $750 million). Main points: The fins win; they stay, flaring upward and outward. Chrome will be a little less glittering, and hung on cars stretching wider, lower and longer than any before. ¶ The horsepower race is apparently over; increases will be generally small. ¶ That much talked about "Detroit small car?" At least a year away, though there may be a push on six-cylinder economy models...
...sparkling Mediterranean and the Egyptian desert. Balthazar covers the same terrain and time span as the first. It is as if the reader were making a return train journey through a landscape he had just crossed-only now he is sitting on the opposite side of the car and everything looks different...
...take advantage of Studebaker's $135 million in tax losses. For Studebaker a merger is a matter of desperate urgency. Down to less than 1% of the auto market this year (from 2.4% in 1954), the company hopes to make a comeback this fall with a new small car, priced under $2,000. But to keep going, Studebaker must also refinance $55 million in bank and insurance company notes, some now falling due, hopes to issue preferred stock for part...