Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between delegations on Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
...CAR OUTPUT begins as Ford, Chrysler, Studebaker complete model runs and join all other producers except G.M. in shutting down for the 1957 model changeover. Carryover of current models is down to manageable figure of less than 600,000 v. 750,000 a year...
AMERICAN MOTORS, strongest Detroit independent, suffered a $7,000,000 second-quarter loss despite a nonrecurring $3,500,000 profit from sale of investments. President George Romney ascribed the loss (compared to a $1,500,000 profit for the same period a year ago) to lower car sales and heavy cost of restyling the Rambler a year earlier than originally planned...
Died. Colonel David Carl Schilling, 37, World War II European Theater ace (24 German planes in air fights and 10½ by strafing), who in 1950 made the first nonstop Atlantic jet crossing; when his car skidded into a bridge near the U.S. Air Force Base at Mildenhall, England...
Estate Wagon. In Newark, attorneys for the estate of Miss Lucine Lorrimer, who bequeathed Neighbor William C. Yarnall a car of his choice in her will, sought in court to have Yarnall's choice ruled out in favor of a "more conventional" model after he picked out an $18,700 British-made Bentley...