Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...path of quasi-independence from Moscow. Present for the first time at Poznan, the U.S. exhibit was by all odds the hit of the show, and dominated the entire fa11" grounds. Except for the model house and some outdoor turntables on which stood a gleaming selection of U.S. cars (with prices posted), it was housed beneath the gossamer translucence of one of Designer Buckminster Fuller's nylon-covered geodesic domes, a silvery half-grapefruit rising above the fair grounds a full 50 feet. Forced for the first time to take potluck instead of arrogantly demanding the choicest location...
...morning in late April of 1945, a military convoy snaked its way through a thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later...
...incomes-and the taxes paid on them-have rapidly increased, so have the ways in which embattled taxpayers hold down the Government's take. Every businessman knows about such old standbys as the farm that runs at a tax-deductible loss, the "business" expense for a yacht, a car, a trip, even a country-club membership. But comparatively few are aware of another way of saving by the wise use of trusts and foundations, which can be set up for either charity or personal projects, and often reward the taxpayer with huge savings. Until recently only taxpayers...
Shock of Recognition. In New Orleans, a box of 100 Bibles, stolen from the car of William Perry Brown, was found two days later on the steps of a library, opened but undisturbed...
Watching Dog. In Louisville, when police asked Mrs. Albert Lang, after her car was stolen with her dog inside, if the dog would not try to stop the thief, she replied ruefully, no, because "she's crazy about that car. And as long as she's riding, she doesn't care who's driving...