Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last; the car's air conditioning broke down, and as he sped through clouds of heavy red dust, Nixon sweated behind rolled-up windows...
...weirder they are, the more noticeable the advertisement that the owner can afford a brand-new car...
...gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that he had fibbed about his age. Said Racer Reventlow...
...industry, released in Detroit last week, solidly documented the comeback of Chrysler Corp. and the slump in General Motors. Jubilant Chrysler announced that Plymouth was now back in third place, which it lost to Buick in 1954. For the first two months of 1957, Plymouth turned out 128,228 cars as against 100,274 Buicks. For Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, that was only part of the good news. Every car in the Chrysler line showed substantial production gains. Overall Chrysler car output in February was up 63% over 1956. So far, Chrysler has produced better than its goal...
Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To the usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...