Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired, sick, dispirited man emerged from 10 Downing Street, climbed into his official car, and sped through the chill January darkness to Buckingham Palace. Minutes later, the palace announced that Queen Elizabeth "was pleased to accept" the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. Swinging out through the palace gates, Eden's black Humber rolled through London's darkened back streets, flashing headlights to warn police of its approach. It stopped opposite the Victorian pile of the Museum of Natural History, where another car waited. A slim, feminine figure in a red cossack hat and pale, loose coat, and carrying...
Massachusetts schools outside the Boston area have been closed. Monday, a man attempting to start his car died in front of his house when carbon monoxide seeped into the car's closed interior; another man stepped out of the cold into a drug store, then collapsed...
...provide the kind of risk-cutting insurance businessmen needed. "Our free economy," says President Smith, "is based on the confidence that comes from insurance. If it weren't for insurance, a man would be mighty reluctant to risk lending a dollar, nobody would be eager to drive a car or build a home...
Died. Stewart McDonald, 78, founder and president (1907-28) of the old Moon Motor Car Co., Federal Housing Administrator from 1935 to 1940; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Finish. In London, Douglas Griffiths got his divorce after he testified that he had paid no attention to his wife's carryings-on with another man, finally had enough when she helped her lover polish his car while Griffiths' grimy auto was parked near...