Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight shivering sports car enthusiasts in half as many cars raced from the Business School parking lot Sunday afternoon in this year's first Harvard Motor Sports Club Hound and Hare Rally, held in conjunction with MIT's Motor Sports Club...
...even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make a complaint or get a petition past the Emperor's guardian bureaucrats was to toss the document into his car as it rolled along the streets...
...notable example was the stock market, which started out strong, bouncing up 8.30 points to 441.04 on the Dow-Jones industrials average. But as the week progressed, a new report on railroad freight-car loadings showed a sharp drop to 703,688 cars for the week or 13.8% below 1956 levels; loadings of grain, ore and manufactured goods were all down. What worried Wall Streeters was the fact that freight-car loadings normally increase until the end of October, then fall off steadily until year's end. This year the decline started several weeks early, due largely, according...
...Those who looked beyond the car loadings could find considerable encouraging news. Retail trade is still at a higher level than in 1956, while personal income continues at a rate of $346.5 billion, $15.4 billion higher than last year. Detroit's automakers built 129,170 cars last week, the most since June and nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities...
...rates on vacation trips, the expense of keeping more informal clothes (in addition to work clothes and Sunday best), plus outlay for sports equipment, whisky and even from time to time a lawyer to look after the family's property. It also samples prices for late-model used cars, such as many families now keep for a second car, and is giving serious thought to adding power tools, home freezers, air conditioners, outboard motors and pleasure boats to the television sets that it already counts as necessities...