Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March but 4% higher than April 1955, while durable goods averaged 13% higher than a year ago. Both might get some help from the slight easing of credit. As for Detroit's automakers, they were finally starting to nibble away at the record inventory of 905,000 unsold cars. With new-car sales of 500,000 units a month, dealers cut their new-car inventories to an estimated 825,000 cars on May 31. hoped to continue cutting them by 75,000 to 100,000 a month...
...FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE will be eased by Federal Court decision against "slow freight" merchandizing by lumber companies. Upholding ICC, court ruled it illegal for shippers to send lumber to Eastern markets by roundabout routes while still negotiating sales with prospective buyers, thus using freight cars as rolling warehouses...
...Board Chairman Albert Bradley with $701,525. Right behind was Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt, whose $642,619 came from a $178,619 salary and a whopping $464,000 bonus. A few notches lower, Chrysler Corp. President L. L. Colbert picked up a $249,800 bonus for boosting car sales, thus doubling...
...milling cast of characters is a queen of Naples whose appetite for men is inextinguishable. Pretending to be interested in Italian political squabbles, Author Thayer really saves his most conspicuous talents for scenes that normally have their origin in lecherous fantasy. A drool trickles from the wiseguy, smoking-car prose, and each orgy is dropped with a reluctance that promises another bout in the next chapter. The promise is kept, to the point of bedroom boredom...
...youngsters' compact to wait for each other is a quick casualty to a kind of dea ex machina. a musky, thirtyish goddess in white named Mme. Dalleray who parks her car on the sea road and asks Phil for directions, then asks him to come over and see her some time at her neighboring villa. Phil does, and night after furtive night the two make hi-infidelity music together. Inwardly tormented. Phil confesses his faithlessness to Vinca, begging her with newborn masculine vanity not to commit suicide for love of him "either now or later." No death wisher, Vinca...