Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little after 2 a.m. an eleven-car caravan raced from Miraflores Palace along a four-lane highway towards Caracas' tiny, little-used Carlota Airport. In a silence broken only by far-off scattered shots, Carlota's runway lights blinked on. At 2:53 the four engines of a DC-4 sputtered into action; 15 minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five...
...spot on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, won a recording contract. He has just finished his second LP album, is talking about his first movie-and is still unable to read a note of music. He learns most of his songs by memorizing what comes blaring over the car radio...
...Paulists started the first Catholic radio station in the U.S., WLWL. They pioneered, among religious groups, the use of paid newspaper ads and car cards to attract converts, developed a nationwide mail-order lending library. Two Paulist trailer chapels operate throughout the South during the summer. Today the Paulists number 221 priests and about 150 students preparing for the priesthood. There are 27 Paulist houses, 24 of them...
American Motors President George Romney, who has staked the future of his company on the small car, last week raked in a fat pot. In the first quarter (which ended Dec. 31) of its current fiscal year, American Motors had a net profit of $4,948,736 v. a loss of $2,994,613 in the same period a year ago. The first quarterly profit in two years was due to the upsurge in Rambler sales, which rose 35% over last year's first quarter as production climbed to 41,492 cars...
...fervent campaign to sell the small car to the U.S., Romney has missed no chance to trumpet his cause. Last week he got another chance-at the expense of New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. The mayor sternly called on Detroit to quit making cars bigger, and in letters to carmakers decried the "continuing burdens" that big cars are placing on cities. In the same space, parking lots can handle 15% fewer cars than ten years ago, said he, while prewar garages handle 40% less...