Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank heaven the small cars are coming back again. In 1949 we finally got our first new car-a Plymouth club coupé. Now, ten years and three children later, we still have the same wonderful little car. We figure that if we hang on to the old '49er a while longer, it will be right back in style again. Hurray for the compact car with the nice price, power-nothing, and the good old stick shift...
...write that close to 1970 about 10 million cars per year will be sold. That can only mean that by then our roads will be so choked up that you can walk faster than a car can move...
...novel, but it's a lot of amiable nonsense. In this age of space miracles, why give so much importance to so small an accomplishment as moving a motor to the rear end? The day to celebrate a great achievement would be when G.M. designs a really safe car...
...corner of Chaikovskovo Street and Vorovskovo Street, a block from his office. Suddenly, in the very best Eric Ambler fashion, five civilianclad men closed in around him, efficiently pinned his arms, covered his mouth, hauled him into a nearby alley where waited a Zim, the Buick-copied car used by junior Red officials...
...other Club entry, a Volkswagen driven by William E. Weir '61, romped to an easy win in the small car class, finishing a good 12 seconds over the second place winner...