Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual in the Naples marketplace. the slight dark-haired man who stopped by the parked car talked tough. "I hear you've been looking for me," he said as he reached into the car's open window and tweaked the chin of the chubby-cheeked girl inside. "Here I am. Get out of the car...
Ever since 1952, when the Trib assigned him to a series on Chicago-area gambling, Smith has relentlessly followed the mob. With a fellow Trib reporter, he crouched for days in a car near Chicago's taxicab union headquarters, discovered-by the simple reportorial expedient of training binoculars on the visitors, and now and then riding a city bus past the building for a close-in gander-that it was crawling with thugs, hoods and hired guns. Their nine-part expose mercilessly pinned Joey Glimco as the leader of this unsavory band, nominated Glimco for repeated uncommunicative appearances before...
...Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista) of the title is a real, live, winsome, mop-footed old English sheep dog named Chiffon (real name: Sam) that opens doors and dresser drawers, climbs ladders, sits commandingly at the wheel of a speeding car, and even gargles before going to bed at night (on the sound track, anyway). Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen...
...company last week boosted its quarterly dividend from 40? to the 60? quarterly rate it was paying up until last fall; its first-quarter earnings will be more than $2.25 a share v. 42? last year. Ford's Vice President James Wright flatly predicted a 6,000,000-car year-the most optimistic projection this year. His optimism was based on the rising production of the industry (1,683,326 autos to date compared to 1,290,587 last year) and a big bulge at Ford. Preliminary sales figures for March showed that Ford, which had lagged slightly behind...
...boost last week in an open trial-the 1959 Mobilgas Economy Run. At the end of the five-day, 1.898-mile trip from Los Angeles to Kansas City, Mo. the honors went to a Rambler American Deluxe driven by Woody Bell, 44. The Rambler topped the 47-car field with an average 25.2878 miles per gallon; a Rambler Deluxe was second, with a 22.9572-m.p.g. average. Third place was won by a Studebaker Lark Deluxe, with 22.4422. For the first time entries were judged this year on an actual miles-per-gallon basis instead of the ton-mileage formula used...