Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Richard Milhous Nixon is a prime national asset to the Republican Party, not only because of his political skill but also because of his genuine appeal to the U.S. electorate. By Nov. 6 the young (43) Vice President will have traveled 42,000 miles by airplane, train and car, will have made more than 150 campaign speeches in 36 states.* He has been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners can do, where and when they should do it. As his travels have progressed, his crowds have grown...
There is a pattern of price increases in other industries. With increasingly severe railroad car shortages, the freight industry announced that it wants a 20% package boost in freight rates, will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval in mid-January. Price boosts in other industries pushed the cost of living in September up another .3% to an all-time record 117.1% on the Labor Departments 1947-49 index of consumer prices...
This meant that there was, temporarily, a full team of 15 men. Eleven of these are now in Montreal; the other four made it as far as Leominster, Mass., (30 miles from Boston) before their car broke down. The four, Tony Markella, John Alden, Line Ford, and George McGarrity, are now in Cambridge...
Adlai stood gingerly on the temporary stand and said, "The only thing as shaky as this is the Republican platform." He thanked the crowd for its hospitality and atempted to reach his car behind a cordon of state troopers, as party workers screamed, "Foster: What happened to Furcolo...
Stevenson made fair headway, considering that the police were outnumbered, 5,000 to 30. Stevenson shook hands gallantly down the runway, through doorways, and even from inside his Cadillac. The car was unable to start as the hands were still clutching Adlai's, so the police began to move the crowd away. One supporter found himself being carried away, feet first. But he smiled back at Stevenson and cried, "Don't you worry, Adlai. It's OK. It's not your fault...