Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside suspects' homes...
Several co-workers remembered that Miss Canty had given a series of "moderately wild" parties for graduate students and persons working in the Geological Department. She drove a battered car worth around $200 to work and dressed "on the poor side of average." Because of this, they said, there was some speculation as to where she got the money for the parties; but no one seriously suspected anything at the time...
...expects the big car to disappear, but its market, too, may shrink. While working on their compact car, the Big Three are gambling on continued demand for bigger, flashier cars by planning 1960 models that are longer, lower and wider-with new fin treatments. G.M.'s cars will be completely done over; the Ford, Edsel and Mercury will also be completely redesigned; while Chrysler is planning changes, its main emphasis will be on new interiors...
...there is little doubt that the big car's medium-priced lines will be hard hit by the approaching battle of the compact cars. Their sales, which were 37% of all sales only four years ago, last week were down to 25%-and still slipping. Most experts expect the new compact cars to occupy the spot once held by the Ford, Chevy and Plymouth before they got big enough to push out the medium-priced cars...
...M.D.C. detective, off duty, stopped the car at Boylston and Charles Sts., where Barber had driven from the scene of the accident, on Columbus Ave., near the Statler Hotel...