Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sold his law books and car, recruited his brother Raul and 150-odd friends, raised $20,000 for guns and contraband army uniforms. At dawn on July 26. 1953, Fidel Castro led a column of 13 cars to the walls of Santiago's bristling Moncada barracks, a yellow stone pile where 1,000 Batista troops lay sleeping. A suspicious Jeep patrol came up. Castro, then 26, stepped out, raised his twelve-gauge shotgun and shot his first man. "That was the mistake," he recalls. "I had told them all to do what I did, and they all opened fire...
...honest President. No. 2 retired to a $250,000 mansion; No. 3 parlayed $1,000,000 into $30 million to $40 million; No. 4 was known as "the peseta stealer." No. 5, Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado (1925-33), coupled graft with terror, rode in a $30,000 armored car, had some of his victims fed to the sharks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched suave Diplomat Sumner Welles to smooth the way for the unseating of the "President of a thousand murders." Welles began a subtle campaign against Machado inside the army itself, and one afternoon Battalion...
...people who think they can use God-to make it stop raining on the day of the picnic, or spare their lives in a disaster. My family and I were in a train wreck a while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian friends talked about it as though we had been especially preserved. What egotism, to assume...
FORD MOTOR CO. will start its own car-financing company. Ford had financing arm from 1928 to 1933, sold it for $30 million to what is now C.I.T. Financial Corp., which does most of Ford's new-car financing...
...reason the merger ardor may be cooling slightly is simply that business is getting better. Late in December rail car-loadings hit 431,938 cars, topped the year-ago level for the first time in 16 months, although the corresponding week a year ago was particularly depressed by bad weather. Fortnight ago, loadings climbed to 467,699 cars, lagged only 1% below the same week in 1958. Railmen think the year-to-year gap has now been closed, expect carloadings to keep climbing above those of 1958 as the tempo of U.S. business picks...