Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instead on the San Franciscana he calls "sightems" or "babble-by-the-bay." Sample Caenanities: "Sign on a Volkswagen: Help Stamp Out Cads"; classified ad for a new home: "All-electric family kitchen, including natural-birth cabinets"; one matron to another matron: "No, she's not keeping the car any more. Just the chauffeur...
...Jaguars were privately entered, but there was a big contingent of factory mechanics on hand to give expert aid and comfort to the cars. The experts had remarkably little work to do. Once they got the lead, the Jags held it to the finish. The Scottish stable (Ecurie Ecossaise) that won last year took first and second; one of last year's winning drivers, Ron Flockhart, was in the front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar...
Cameras began rolling stealthily this week on the most elaborately furtive TV production of the season: the first commercial for the Ford Motor Co.'s new medium-priced car, the Edsel. To keep the car's looks hush-hush until the big unveiling Aug. 27, the ad agency hired Hollywood's Cascade Pictures, which makes special movies for the Atomic Energy Commission and the guided-missile program. Said a studio spokesman: "We're using all the same precautions that we take for AEC films." Five shrouded Edsels were whisked across the country by van from Mahwah...
...supply the new market, the character of the U.S. boat industry is changing. New boat trailers make it possible for a family to buy a boat, keep it in their backyard and tow it along behind the family car to any lake or seashore launching spot. Estimates are that there are already 750,000 boat trailers on U.S. highways, and the number is growing every year. With sales of 140,000 trailers worth $21 million last year, U.S. trailermakers hope to increase their market in 1957 to $25 million for 151,000 trailers, ranging from $100 rigs...
...decided to hand the treasure to the Communist Party because the Communists had fought harder than anyone else." An ex-driver for the partisans told of loading five heavy suitcases aboard a Fiat, taking them to Como and delivering them to Gorreri. "They weighed plenty," said the driver. "The car was overloaded and the wheels scraped against the fenders." Snapped Gorreri: "I never saw you before. You lie." Said the driver, unperturbed: "I never...