Word: carly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them a reassuring smile when he lost his balance while curtseying in his blue, fur-trimmed parka. At the U.S.'s Harmon airbase at Stephenville, Nfld., a Ford convertible assigned for royal use failed to start. Prince Philip cracked: "Too bad we don't have a British car"-whereupon the royal couple transferred to a Cadillac. At week's end, the Queen and Prince Philip boarded the 5,769-ton royal yacht Britannia at Seven Islands on the St. Lawrence River, began a leisurely two-day voyage to Quebec City...
...dresses like a color-blind D.P. from Dogpatch. She claims to comb her scraggle-cropped, copper-colored hair with an eggbeater, but in fact usually attacks it only with her fingers. Her income has grown to six figures, but she haunts bargain counters, a born haggler. She handles her car like a hopped-up hot-rodder, laces into the Los Angeles freeway competition with the voice and free-wheeling vocabulary of a longshoreman...
Shirley remembers it differently, indignantly denies that she was kidding when she asked for the car. "When you're talking to a man with 44 million dollars," snaps Shirley, "you're not joking...
...auto industry is accelerating so fast that the 3,000,000th car of 1959 rolls off the lines this week, four months ahead of 1958; front-running Chevrolet alone has built...
...result of hedging against the July 31 deadline when most of the industry's labor contracts expire. It is based largely on new applications. The uses of aluminum by the housing industry are expected to increase this year by more than 50% over 1958. The 1959 car uses about 52 Ibs. of aluminum for brakes, pistons, automatic transmission parts and trim (v. 47 Ibs. last year). By 1962, predicts D. A. Rhoades, general manager of Kaiser Aluminum, the auto industry's use of aluminum will be up 300%, to 500.000 tons a year for engines, wheels, bumpers...