Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIRE PRICE INCREASES for auto and truck tires are coming soon. Truck manufacturers have been notified of 3-5% price hikes, and passenger-car-tire increases are expected...
...stars are Bill (Me and Juliet) Hayes and Florence (Fanny) Henderson. It races along like a hot rod, but every other line and every song is part of the sales spiel. The title: Got Rhythm. The message: "I got beauty! I got styling! I got sweet lines." "The car," intones D. P. Brother ad agency Vice President Frank Egan, "is, of course, the real star of the show...
...Many people who are purchasing small imported cars will prefer first-class American transportation to the second-class transportation offered them by small foreign imports." So said Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest R. Breech last week, as Ford became the first of the U.S. Big Three to hold a press showing on closed-circuit television of its new 1960 compact car to newsmen gathered in 21 cities...
...SMALL-CAR DEAL between American Motors and West Germany's B.M.W. is in the exploratory stage. Ailing B.M.W. (pygmy-sized Isetta, high-priced luxury cars) appears ripe for acquisition; massive purchases by speculators have sent its stock to new highs on Frankfurt exchange...
Died. Charles R. Blyth, 76, founder-chairman of the San Francisco investment banking house of Blyth & Co., who started his firm in 1914 with a loan on his car, hired on jobless financial wizards during the Depression, came to operate offices in 24 cities with assets of better than $35 million; in Hillsborough, Calif...