Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a man sideswiped by a fast car, Ohio's cherubic Governor Mike Di Salle dazedly picked himself up last week and felt around for broken bones. It was hit and run-but no accident. The driver: Presidential Hopeful John F. Kennedy. The verdict: the boldest power play thus far in the 1960 Democratic race...
...King Leopold's brother Charles, who served as regent during the war and openly opposed Leopold's return to the throne, flatly refused to attend the wedding. Leopold's unpopular morganatic wife, the handsome Princess Liliane, having been shunted from a lead car to a back car and then to a lead car again, seemed about to suffer from "diplomatic illness" on the big day, but was finally content with limousine No. 4 and ex-King Umberto of Italy as her companion...
...Nationwide cement sales dropped 50%. ¶ Sales of small appliances, car parts and other necessities are down as much as 27%, while sales of necessities, e.g., food and drugs, just hold their own. ¶ Big, long-term purchases reflecting confidence in the future, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, are off 20% to 50%. ¶ U.S. investment, which rose $25 million (to a total of $850 million) even in the war year of 1958, has virtually stopped. ¶ Tourism, such a bright prospect that three big new hotels opened for the 1957-58 season, is nearly dead, with...
...clothing. While he spent 80% of his entire income on these three necessities around 1900, he now spends only 57%. Clothing is no longer even one of the Big Three. The average worker's family spends a seventh of its income on transportation -mostly on the family car-only a ninth on its backs. It gets considerably more use for its money; e.g., the average scrapping age of automobiles rose from 6½ years in 1925 to 13 in 1955, largely offsetting the increase in new-car prices...
Ever since plans for the new compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight...