Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DAVID SMITH rejoiced in the clatter of the Iron Age. In his workshop at Bolton Landing, on Lake George in upstate New York, he welded junk steel and polished aluminum into powerful abstractions. Before he was killed in a car crash at the age of 59 in 1965, many critics considered him the most important sculptor working in America. Smith had rarely talked about his work in public, though he often scribbled his thoughts in his notebooks...
...developing nations throughout the world, domestic car production is a foremost symbol of industrial coming-of-age. As a result, the list of auto-producing countries is lengthening, even if many of them make cars only under license with the major manufacturers in other nations. Such arrangements vary widely, from mere final assembly of a vehicle to the production of most parts locally. Manufacturers' labels are often misleading. The Nasr (Victory) sedans of the U.A.R., for example, are in fact Fiats assembled in Cairo. Some countries-for one, Red China, which makes passenger cars named Red Flag and Phoenix...
...Produced solely under license arrangements and/or by subsidiaries of foreign car manufacturers...
...Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots. The R. L. Polk company has been in business ever since. It branched out into publishing city directories (which were originally intended to guide door-to-door salesmen) and, since 1922, car-registration reports...
...reason of various arrangements with all 50 states (in most cases, Polk pays for what it gets), Polk is able to tap the great wealth of information ac cumulated in car-licensing bureaus. As a result, it is the only central source of nationwide car registration, keeping track of all 100 million vehicles on the road. Although automakers obviously know how many cars they produce, Polk supplies the figures on actual sales. It also traces down for the carmakers the owners of autos that have been re called for repairs...