Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blocked by three husky men. One grabbed him. He twisted, ran headlong into another, broke away, dodged across the street and was caught again, just a few yards from one of Clinton's two polling places. Under a storm of fists, Turner fell back against a car that was soon smeared with his blood. Then he went all the way down. Others, including two hysterical women, joined the kicking, clawing, screaming mob. A man and a woman from a nearby insurance office tried to help Turner. The man was driven back and pelted with eggs; the woman was pushed...
...worst effects are still to come. Even with U.S. help. Britain will have to learn to live with no more than three-quarters of her normal oil supply. Ordinary motorists will get only enough gas to carry them 200 miles a month. Gasoline rationing is already hurting new-car sales. One thousand auto workers have been laid off, and another 56,000 have had their working hours cut. Macmillan also raised the tax on oil and gasoline to an alltime high of 49? a gallon. This increase, together with a simultaneous price hike by the oil companies, drove the retail...
...there is another aspect to my proposal, which seeks a stricter enforcement of the compulsory insurance law," DeGuglielmo said. The Councilor indicated he was more interested in apprehending violators of the insurance provisions, who are liable to a $125 fine, than in making car-owners pay the $9 registration...
...remaining 258 students polled fall into three groups: those who no longer have a car, students who have registered their cars but who live near enough to the College to leave their cars at home, and those who keep their automobiles somewhere outside Cambridge...
Most student car-owners with out-of-state registrations have little to fear from City Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo's drive to crack down on them if they carry the proper insurance, a high official of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles said yesterday...