Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right, Jack." Whether all this slanging had changed any votes was highly questionable. What clearly had swung the election to the Tories, as able Young Tory Labor Minister Iain Macleod had shrewdly predicted, was the growing stake in society possessed by Britain's "new men of property"-car-owning, house-owning young workingmen whose fathers had never been able to save a shilling but who themselves were apt to have a comfortable nest egg in the local Building Society...
...well until it breaks." To replace Mischker, the insatiable Roden enlisted his 22-year-old son Jürgen, but on Jürgen's second night out with Father, a motorcycle cop, suspicious at the sight of so young a man driving so expensive a car, came over to investigate and spotted the beef in the back seat. With the pitcher plainly broken at last, Roden confessed all, and last week, as his trial wound to a close, he was clearly headed for the kindest fate a rustler can expect: a long stretch in prison. Worse...
...came one evening last week with the suddenness of lightning as Kassem's car took him along the accustomed route through Rashid Street. As usual, little knots of surprised pedestrians stopped to wave or cheer, and some trotted in the dusty street hoping for a peek at the "sole leader." Then, from the sidewalk, a small group of grim men stepped toward the car and opened fire with a deafening clatter. A youth broke out of the startled crowd to hurl himself in front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem...
...years, Soviet economists have inveighed against installment buying as simply another hobnail in the capitalist heel grinding the faces of the poor. When a Western worker lost his job, they declared, he lost his car, his furniture, even the home on which he could no longer keep up payments. Last week, in an unabashed about-face, workers all over Russia were invited to sign up for the installment plan as a wide range of Soviet consumer goods were made available on credit...
...even he must have anticipated, Nikita's taxi-pool plan evoked no display of overwhelming enthusiasm from his subjects. And for all his usual adroitness, Khrushchev dropped a real clanger when he sniffed that, in the capitalist U.S., "People say: 'This is a lousy car, but at least it is my own.' " Parking problem or no parking problem, this is a statement that most Russians would clearly like to be able to make...