Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowering night two weeks ago, Mary Cheever put her car in the garage after a P.T.A. meeting. At the mouth of the dingy alley next to her apartment house, a man in a long-visored cap sprang at her. He clawed for her shoulder bag, clubbed her on the head with a pistol, shot her in the back. She screamed three times and died in an ambulance ten minutes later...
Where are we getting? "The way I like to put it," Van Wagoner put it, "is we've got this automobile called democracy-see?-a car called democracy. We've put it here for these people to drive, and we've taught them how to drive, see? But their being able to drive doesn't mean there won't be accidents, does...
Retailers who had seen consumer credit dip during January, for the first time in three years, now thought that the easier credit would pep up sales. Said Bert Baker, Detroit's biggest used-car dealer: "I figure we can sell 20% more cars right off the reel...
...Chicago's Federal Court last week, Preston Tucker's company and his rear-engined "car of tomorrow" looked like the one-hoss shay. If not bankrupt, the company seemed only a bumper's length away. The court appointed two trustees in reorganization to operate the business for the next 60 days, then submit a plan for reorganization along with a report on the "desirability of continuance...
Dissonance. In Kirkwood, Mo., the St. Louis Police Quartet finished up their recital at the First Presbyterian Church, found a parking ticket on their car...