Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perez Jimenez bought a similar car last year, but apparently grew tired of it. When the new one arrives, he will give the old one to his wife...
...Truman scurried about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional. His conversation also ranged far and wide, included a sermonette on the hazards of jaywalking. Scarcely was this out of his mouth when, crossing a street with the green light in his favor, Truman almost got mowed down by a car rushing a semaphore. The reporters yelled at the driver, but Harry was too involved in his street lecture to notice the close shave...
...with an eye on Damon Runyon and a finger in a dictionary of U.S. criminal argot, the play explored a quaint old vein of humor among thieves: Lahr, as a low man on the totem pole of crime, joined another aging juvenile delinquent (Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha-a-a-a-!"), did all that a master's timing could do for some...
American Express, which likes to call itself a home away from home for Americans, last week decided to supply the home with a car. It teamed up with Hertz Corp., the world's biggest car renter, to form a new company that will rent cars around the globe. The new firm, called Hertz American Express International Ltd., will set up a system whereby a traveler can drive a Hertz car to any U.S. airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push...
...deal is a natural. American Express, which has been referring car-rental requests from American tourists to other companies, will now get the customers itself. Hertz, which has been hampered in its foreign growth because of the difficulty of lining up foreign credits, will have American Express help in approaching bankers abroad...