Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowled Over. In Denver, Donna Doss, 24, paid a $15.50 fine for careless driving because she ate her breakfast while driving to work one morning, had a collision with another car, spilled a bowl of Cream of Wheat all over her hair, face and clothes...
There had only been shouts, stones and vulgar slogans, and the unusual spectacle of a high U.S. representative conducted about a Middle Eastern city like a hunted criminal. Yet, if Fritzlan had followed the route from the airport that the mob had expected, the embassy car would certainly have been stopped, probably overturned and set afire, and the men inside could have been in gravest peril. If General Kassem had not wanted William Rountree humiliated or worse, he showed an inefficiency and stupidity not previously apparent...
Acknowledging the cheers of thousands of peasants who had come swarming into Gangad from 50 miles around, Nehru alighted from his car outside a yellow brick schoolhouse and strode up the gravel path to greet the man he had traveled this distance to see: Vinoba Bhave, a skinny, penniless oldster with sunken cheeks, a wispy white mustache and beard (TIME Cover...
...below last year, and specialty store sales dropped $1,250,000. Impulse and mailorder sales-both directly responsive to newspaper ads-were down even more sharply. In desperation, some Manhattan merchants pasted ads in subway coach windows-at $2,000 a day for four displays in each car-or bought space in neighborhood papers, e.g., the Greenwich Village Villager, which was not affected by the strike. On 42nd Street, Stern's department store installed eight pretty girls in show windows to chalk sales specials on blackboards, got so much response that the girls may be used even after...
...rising consumer debt is a sign of prosperity, expanding in times of optimism, contracting in times of doubt. With recession in 1958, consumers paid off $1 billion in auto debts, the highest repayment since World War II. Now, with recovery, they should be in the mood to borrow for cars again. While predictions are for a 5,500,000-car year, automen think they may do a lot better. One hopeful sign at year's end: cars were selling at a far faster clip than a year ago, when Detroit was already beginning to trim production to match falling...