Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged El Amin played his part to perfection. He was regal and dignified at hand-kissing ceremonies, built fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important, El Amin kept himself out of political mischief by spending his days tinkering with old clocks and watches and later, when his hobbies turned more modern, with an expensive X-ray machine and a do-it-yourself kit for making...
...claim to be walking in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi drive big foreign cars, surround themselves with red-liveried lackeys, command private railroad cars, scratch like fishwives for the trappings of pomp and prestige. Nehru recently penned a sharp note to several state ministers warning them to get rid of their retainers and private railroad cars. "Even President Eisenhower," wrote the Pandit, "drives about the countryside without flags all over his car...
...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
RENT-A-PLANE service will be started this fall by Hertz Corp., which expects to have 50 rental air stations doing $2,500,000 business in its first year. At airports throughout U.S., car-rental company will franchise Cessna Aircraft Co. distributors to rent planes to private pilots. Rental for fly-it-yourself four-passenger Cessna plane: $1 an hour plus 15? a mile...
Before the sale can start, the government may have to prove its rightful ownership. Claims of ownership are being advanced by Volkswagen's original financiers -Germans who paid Hitler's Labor Front $233 each for the "people's car" they never got. Of 300,000 Germans taken in on the deal, a group of 130,000 is still suing in federal courts for some return, although lower courts ruled against them...