Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduates are required to report their new car license registration numbers with the University, Arthur D. Trottenberg, Manager of Operating Services, announced yesterday. Registration of new numbers may be done at the University police office in Grays Hall, or with the House superintendents...
...Office. Lieut. Moorhouse, Gaitskell learned, had led his platoon through the back streets of Port Said on a night raid in which nine Egyptian terrorists were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent out search parties to comb every house in the district, but they found no sign of the young lieutenant. Francis Moorhouse's first instinct was to seize a telephone...
Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
Shock Therapy. In Detroit, after he rammed Charles Shepherd's auto, Walter H. Hobbs was fined $10 despite Shepherd's plea in his defense that since the collision his car had run better than ever...
...Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...