Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passive resistance might be the best weapon against passive resistance. No summons for his arrest came. Gandhi last week went back to the library and railroad station, this time taking his wife Sushila along. Again there was no arrest. Gandhi and his wife dejectedly drove away in their blue Chevrolet...
Small Taxes. To market the beef from their ranches, where they run 15,000 head of cattle, they built their own packing plant. They added a chain of wholesale and retail general stores, four Chevrolet agencies, four movie theaters, some 20 other enterprises. "We were doing in a hurry," says Chito, "what it took a hundred years...
...there are more cars on the road, and too many motorists are driving too fast and too carelessly. The cost of car repairs has also shot up, and new cars are more difficult to fix than pre-war models. For example, to replace a front fender on a 1940 Chevrolet cost $18.80 for parts and labor ten years ago; the same job on last year's model costs $42.50. As a result, in spite of six rate increases in the last seven years, casualty companies are already getting ready to holler for more...
...weeks to pay the $74 billion tax bill. The $74 billion tax bill is 3½ times what the U.S. spends for shoes and clothing, almost four times what it spends for shelter, almost 14 times what it spends for transportation. It would buy enough four-door Chevrolet sedans to stretch bumper to bumper four times around the world. It would provide for all U.S. medical care for eight years, or all U.S. education for a decade. It would build 200 Panama Canals...
...m.p.h. The 10-to-1-compression engine runs on a mixture of alcohol and premium gasoline. Built of light aluminum and magnesium alloys, Le Sabre weighs 4,000 Ibs., less than many standard U.S. convertibles. Even though its 115-inch wheelbase is the same length as a Chevrolet's, Le Sabre rides like a Cadillac...