Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsman who accompanied the expedition), the group has since had tough going. But vivid reporting of the Fifty-Niners' trials has deterred none of a second contingent from Michigan: some 550 men, women and children have registered at $25 a head, will set out in a 100-car train later this month...
...Germans are car owners, and 20% of new buyers are hourly wage workers who, ten years ago, could not afford or get anything bigger than a motorbike...
...Hyde Park. At Roosevelt's suggestion, the King and the President climbed into bathing attire, drove off toward a nearby swimming pool along a road lined with U.S. and British Army guards. Spotting a clutch of photographers with cameras at the ready, the King abruptly shouted: "Stop the car!" "Why?" asked F.D.R. "I don't think," grinned His Majesty, explaining that he wanted no photographs, "my people back in England would understand my reviewing the troops in my bathing suit...
...ninth floor of a building overlooking the Moscow River and the Kremlin. Although she earns an estimated $25,000 a year as leading ballerina of the Bolshoi, she maintains no country dacha, but drives a six-cylinder Volga, which she hopes to turn in someday for a larger car ("I dream," she says, "about its automatic shift...
SECRET ROLLS-ROYCE, new patrician-precisioned model called Phantom V, is being developed in Britain. Now built only for select few, e.g., Queen Elizabeth, eight-cylinder car is expected to be in commercial production by early...