Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chambers had testified that in the fall of 1937, Hiss lent him $400 to buy a car. Records of a Baltimore automobile company showed that Esther Chambers bought a car on Nov. 23, 1937. The Government looked at the Hisses' Washington bank account, found it showed a withdrawal of $400 on Nov. 19, 1937. The Hiss explanation was that they used the money to buy furniture. The importance of these bits of documentary evidence to the Government was that they established the Chamberses' intimate knowledge of the Hisses' private affairs more than a year after Hiss testified...
Among the winners of the third annual Horatio Alger Award, as outstanding symbols "of starting from scratch": television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont and Used Car Magnate Earl W. ("Madman") Muntz...
...famous motor race track at Le Mans, France, sleek-bonneted speedsters screeched around the turns and thundered down the straightways in the most grueling sport-car endurance race on the speedway calendar. Plugging along at 70 m.p.h. -and letting other models slip past at better speeds-was a 1948 British Aston-Martin coupe. Its two-man crew, a couple of middle-aged English amateurs, were there just to prove that "any British family man who drives with care . . . can give these continental chaps a run for their money...
...first race for both Rob Lawrie (46) and Dr. Dick Parker (48), who took turns driving the Lawrie family car over the winding eight-mile course throughout the 24 hours of the race. Only 19 of the 49 entries finished. One generous French driver, Henri Louveau, threw away his chance of winning by stopping to help an Englishman who had cracked up on a curve. Another Englishman, 36-year-old Lord Selsdon, driving an Italian-made, twelve-cylinder Ferrari, barely stood off Louveau's challenge and won, with an average of 82 m.p.h. for 1,975 miles...
...came the Aston-Martin with the English novices. Said Rob Lawrie, proudly: "We let the others pass and crash. We just kept on going. Back home, I am going to have a drophead hood [convertible top] put on, then I'll take Aunt Agatha out in it. This car has got to last the family a long time...