Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plei Me is pronounced "play may," and the incongruity of the name must have struck millions of Americans as they watched the if grim film clips on TV screens night after night. Even motorists who flipped on their car radios must suddenly have got a tense, terrifying ringside impression of the war. "In one minute," said the voice of a CBS radio reporter in Plei Me, where several wounded G.I.s were awaiting evacuation, "an air strike will begin and a if helicopter might very well be caught in it. They have loaded two men on. Here comes the air strike...
Ambassador Bunker's skilled patchwork may have forestalled major trouble, but it did little to soothe the violent hatreds that still divide the country. Outside Santo Domingo last week, a group of goons machine-gunned the car of a moderate provincial governor, killing him and seriously wounding three companions. In the capital, the Public Works Ministry was ransacked and machine-gunned by a 15-man group that identified itself as the "Democratic Anti-Communist Commando No. 1." At week's end, there were reports of similar raids in the usually placid interior city of Santiago...
...shatter records by turning out 1,500,000 vehicles and running up a 10% sales increase. Last week International Harvester, the industry's third largest company, announced that its truck sales have surpassed $1 billion for the first time, thus making Harvester the first company outside the passenger-car field to exceed that mark. Most truck companies are running as much as four months behind on deliveries...
...This rapid growth has, in fact, attracted far more than the banks. Dozens of new credit-card plans, ranging from neighborhood to countrywide, are popping up across the U.S. California's Transamerica Credit Corp. issues cards for individual shopping centers that enable the shopper to gas up her car, buy in a wide variety of shops, eat lunch and have her hair done. Los Angeles' Ail-American Acceptance Corp. has come out with a complete card for the automobile owner, who can use credit for repairs, new parts and the purchase of seat covers or tires. Universal Western...
...steamship lines are thinking of issuing a card, something like the air-travel card, that would cover passage and shipboard purchases. Oil companies, which have offered oil and gas on credit for years, are now offering a whole new line of credit possibilities. Mobil cards can be used for car repairs and motel bills, American Oil cards for hotel, motel and restaurant bills, Esso cards for life insurance...