Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge police have arrested several men, including Tuesday night's offender, and hope to improve the situation. A police spokesman urged that any girl accosted by men from a car take down the license number and phone the police immediately...
With the arrival of TIME and the repairman article came a broken faucet in the bathroom and an odd noise in the transmission of the car. The TV set (last week's trouble: condenser) now needs a new picture tube. At times like this I wonder if Grandma's day wasn't better. At least the only thing that broke down then was Grandma...
...colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks, he throws in some wild Italian movies or stages a midget-car race on the studio floor. For the most part, though, Paar just talks with his guests, bringing to the wee hours a sometimes mordant humor and off-color japery that smack of the old radio days when Bob Hope used to get cut off the air, e.g., "I went...
...surprise: Ford will discontinue its famed two-seater Thunderbird, replace it with the long-planned four-seater model that is longer (113 in. wheelbase v. 102 in. wheelbase). but just as low and rakish. While the small T-bird has been a big success, with sales of 53,000 cars since 1954 (five times as many as Chevrolet's sporty Corvette), Ford thinks that the U.S. two-seater market is limited. Now it will shoot for broader fields in the growing family small-car market...
BIGGEST AUTO DEAL in history will give Hertz Rent-A-Car System $60 million worth of 1958 models. Hertz will buy (for cash) 19,737 autos, three-quarters of them from General Motors, also plans to buy another 11,000 after April 1 for $33.5 million more. To swing deal, Hertz will sell 15,000 of its 1957 cars for around $35 million, boost its revolving bank credit from $50 million to $65 million...