Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PACKARD, WITH A 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE, WHICH HAS FEATURED ITS CUSTOM EIGHT SINCE 1939 AS "AMERICA'S MOST POWERFUL MOTOR CAR," GLADLY WELCOMES CADILLAC AS A WORTHY COMPETITOR IN ITS POWER BRACKET WITH THE 160-HORSEPOWER ENGINE YOUR ISSUE OF OCT. 25 REPORTS, BUT IS SURPRISED THAT USUALLY ACCURATE TIME IMPLIES THE CADILLAC ENGINE TO BE EXCLUSIVE IN THAT POWER RATING...
There are train, bus, airplane, car, and the University Travel Service. By any of these systems, a trip consists of two distinct steps: (1) the pre-New York or "New England" stage, and (2) the post New York or "Middle Atlantic" stage. Sometimes there is a third, the New York or "whiskey" stage...
...servant of the people, they told him, and he had no right to be away during regular working hours. Some doctors were unpleasant. One, called five miles on a case, berated and lectured the parents of a sick child: "This is a fine thing, all this way in my car on the free service...
Toyland's atomic age is booming; chemistry sets contain samples of uranium ore, guaranteed to be all but inert, and incapable of making Junior radioactive. An atom gun with a hidden battery flashes and buzzes, and a "rocket" car is driven along on compressed...
...weeks, like a hill-climbing car with water in the fuel lines, the New York stock market had sputtered upward in short uncertain bursts. One day last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days...