Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet you. I am 20, and my bust is 37.") Charlie Van Doren was painfully torn between going on again this week at the risk of losing some of his big stake to a new opponent, or getting out now that he has enough to finance a "snazzy sports car" and several free summers in which to finish a thesis on Poet William Cowper and write a novel. "Something about it gets you," he said...
...place, the modern, competitive banker is often as friendly as a used-car dealerneering services for "the little man," they now compete for every consumer's dollar, are putting up new branches everywhere to catch the smallest as well as the biggest account. Philadelphia National Bank, long known as a rich man's institution, today has 21 branches, 150,000 accounts, and its assets have grown by more than $900 million. Bankers are also learning the values of advertising to get their message across, spent $82 million last year v. $22 million in 1946. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank...
What kind of car will the U.S. buyer be getting in 1961? It will be lower, more powerful and more gadget-packed, predicted Paul Richard, automotive development manager for E. I. du Pont de Nemours last week, but not any heavier or longer. Engines, says Richard, will be stepped up from the present average of 227 h.p. to 280 h.p., "and some cars will offer in the vicinity...
...Cars which now average 3,450 lbs. will use more lightweight aluminum and magnesium, will thus get no heavier. The car weight per horsepower, which fell from 33 Ibs. to 15 Ibs. between 1946 and 1957, will hit a low of 12 Ibs. in '61. Since this "is the range of the present Corvette and Thunderbird sports cars, the average car of 1961 may perform as well as today's sports car...
Richard flatly contradicted manufacturers' current claims of increasing gasoline economy, said that du Font's car fleet showed a "loss of fuel economy of over 10% in seven years." But for 1961 he predicted a turn to new, more economical fuel systems, e.g., dual four-barrel carburetors, aircraft-type pressure carburetors, fuel-injection systems...