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Word: chevrolets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perlman reported that a three-year-old request by the Central to cut rail and ferry service across the Hudson River into Manhattan is still pending, despite the fact that the railroad has lost $3,000,000 a year on the line during the period, "enough to provide a Chevrolet for each of the less than 4,000 commuters using the service." Perlman asked for changes in the law to let railroads set their own passenger fares and service, or at least to put all passenger regulations under the Interstate Commerce Commission instead of under state agencies that "often tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Help Wanted | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Schaus soon found that the West Virginia hills grow a hardy breed of human kangaroos on high school basketball courts, now sets out night after night over the winding West Virginia roads in his 1957 Chevrolet to search for talent at high school games. Ohio-born Coach Schaus uses a recruiting argument that seems to work: he went out of his state to play ball, he explains, and now is almost a stranger back home. The moral: stay home and stay known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Country Slickers | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...policeman took after her in his patrol car, chased her about a mile, finally slowed down as his speedometer indicated 100 m.p.h. Just then he saw the Chevrolet start to weave back and forth across the three southbound lanes of the parkway. On one wild weave to the right it smashed into the rear of a Thunderbird convertible hugging the curbside, shattered it. The Thunderbird's driver, 47-year-old Richard Sperling, a Connecticut laundry manager and father of two, died instantly. The Chevrolet swerved onto a shoulder, rolled over four times. Christine was only dazed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Ruin Around a Rebel | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Wild Weave. Last week Christine rebelled for the fourth furious time. Walking along Mount Vernon's Lincoln Avenue one afternoon, she noted a red Chevrolet parked with ignition off but unlocked. Explained Christine afterward: "I just felt I had to break the law." She broke it by sliding behind the wheel, driving the car onto the Hutchinson River Parkway and heading south toward New York City. At a toll station, the same cop who had stopped her the first time as a runaway recognized Christine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Ruin Around a Rebel | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...with telephone calls, then had their influential friends call, finally got their friends' friends to call. Reason for the furor: tucked away in Ragsdale's pocket was Buick's fat $24 million-a-year account, the industry's third largest automotive account (after Ford and Chevrolet) and he was preparing to toss it in the lap of some lucky agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Better Woo Buick | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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