Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back against a white pillow. In a moment his Secret Service driver wheeled the car out into Washington traffic, led the cavalcade of Secret Service men, photographers and reporters north through the Maryland countryside...
...black Cadillac picked a path out of the traffic along Manhattan's Central Park South one afternoon last week and glided to the curb before the plush and towering Hampshire House overlooking the grass, trees and lake in lower Central Park. From the back seat edged the car's solitary passenger, a handsome, meaty man with wavy silver hair. He was dressed in a businesslike grey summer suit, red and white striped bowtie and soft black loafers. Stepping to the pavement, he turned slightly, tossed the driver of the rented limousine a "Thank you, James." Then David John...
...prolonged, early-morning blast of locomotive whistles in the Polish industrial city of Poznan that set off a revolt heard round the world. At 7 a.m. one day last week some 30,000 machinists, founders, fitters and laborers of all callings assembled at the locomotive, railroad-car and metallurgical factories on Poznan's outskirts. They were orderly but they were determined, and they had a grievance...
...growers were tricked shortly afterwards, when Kosuga and Siegel switched to a short position in the market, CEA charged. In February they held short positions for 1,148 car lots, and the price was down to $1.02 a bag. They were engaging in "a conspiracy to depress the prices in order to cover their short position," in the March onion futures. To grease the price skids, they allegedly shipped some of their aging onions out of Chicago, had them culled, resorted and repacked, and then sent back to Chicago #151;to make it appear as though large quantities...
...after he and his new wife became mired in the sand dunes, Kenneth Marcle dutifully hitchhiked into town for help, returned to find his Chevrolet and bride gone, next morning located his wife in nearby Date City, where she explained that a "nice man" had come along, pushed the car out of the sand and taken her to Mexicali, Mexico for an evening "doing the town...