Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mused; the new terrace was a perfect place for outdoor entertaining. Had anybody noticed the large number of yachts moored near by? How did the Chicago Cubs make out (Cubs 0, Redlegs 2)? When the taxi stopped at his hotel, an aide turned Stevenson's attention to a car flying a "Stevenson for President" banner. Stevenson gave a perfunctory look, blinked, appeared to do a double-take as he realized that he was the subject of the unfurled admiration. "Hello!" he shouted. "Thanks−thanks...
With the acid eating long, telltale scars into Telvi's face, Carlino feared that he was "too hot" to stay around. One night when Telvi dared to walk in the streets, a car pulled up and an unidentified man urged him to get in and be taken to the airport so he could lie low in Florida. He got in, but managed to leap out safely when the car kept going in the wrong direction. Then the hoodlum fled to a hideout in Youngstown, Ohio. In July Telvi returned to New York, but he was still...
STEEL SHORTAGE, beginning to pinch just now, will continue through year's end, the worst since post-strike 1952. Lacking plates and structural shapes, some railroad car and agricultural equipment builders are resorting to production cutbacks, layoffs. Steel strike cost 11 million tons of steel, plus extensive damage to U.S. mills...
...gold-plated and mink-trimmed whatnots are only the smallest part of the luxury market. To U.S. economists, the amazing fact about the new luxury market is the broadening and democratization of both the market and the luxuries themselves. Gone are the days when luxury meant a private railroad car, a steam yacht, a Newport château. From an emphasis on the ostentatious things that go with ceremony, luxury has focused on the convenient gadgets that make life easy for the many...
Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...