Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit of the American tradition, Boston celebrated Washington's Birthday with "open-house" automobile shows patriotically presented by local car dealers. With advertisements which tried to remind customers of Washington's legacy to the auto industry, the auto salesmen invited buyers to use their leisure holiday hours to inspect Detroit's latest magnificent arrivals...
...Disappointment. Calling the competing cars "stock" models, to imply that they are the same as any on view in the showrooms, was playing fast and loose with auto-show language. Many of the cars at Daytona contained special power packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands...
...Class Five (259 to 305 cu. in.) and Class Four (213 to 259 cu. in.) were all Chevrolets. The new fuel-injection Class Five Chevies reached speeds up to 131.076 m.p.h., took the first 33 places in a 38-car field. In acceleration Chevies got up to 85.006 m.p.h., took the first 18 places ahead of a lone Ford. In the Class Four flying mile, Chevies reached 102.157 m.p.h. and finished one-two-three. Only in Class Four acceleration were they upset. A Nash Rambler was timed in 71.785 m.p.h. But Chevrolet finished in the next six places...
...death, punishment and exile. The hero, a Ukrainian Cossack named Hryhory Mnohohrishny, has been sentenced as "an enemy of the State" to 25 years at the slave-labor camp at Kolyma on the frozen Sea of Okhotsk. Now he is one of thousands of prisoners jammed into a 60-car convict train rolling across Siberia to the camp. As a counterpoint to the doomed men in the cattle cars, Author Bahriany describes the comforts of another train, also bound east, which is carrying volunteer settlers to the frontier lands on the Pacific. Among them is the NKVD major responsible...
...Master's Vice. In Indianapolis, Mallory Hinson was jailed for drunk driving after he refused to take a drunkometer test, confidentially advised cops to test his dog instead, explained that the dog, not he, had been piloting the car...