Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boats in the first commercial flights across the oceans, flew Lindbergh on a record-breaking transcontinental flight, Wiley Post around the world, Howard Hughes to a transcontinental record, and Amelia Earhart to her unknown fate. In World War II, engines made by Pratt & Whitney and its licensees (Ford, Buick, Chevrolet, Nash-Kelvinator and others) furnished half of all the U.S. piston horsepower flown in the war. By war's end Pratt & Whitney was developing the piston engine to its limits with its Wasp Major, now the most powerful piston engine ever built. It had also reached...
...rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge is as keen as the rivalry between Ford and Chevrolet-and a good deal older. Last week George Trevelyan, Master of Trinity College and High Steward of the Borough of Cambridge, announced that he was petitioning the Crown to change Cambridge's status from town to city. Cried one Oxonian on hearing the news: "Good gracious! In their efforts for equality, Cambridge will be wanting a bishop next." Oxford has been both bishopric and city for more than four centuries...
Last week the Cadillac and the Chevrolet of the furniture business got together. For $3,500,000, said International's Top Man Jay Levine, he and associates had bought the inventory and physical assets of the Karpen Co. Levine, who bought control of International only last fall, does not plan to lie back on his chaise longue now. Said he: "If I have anything to do with it, we'll be the biggest thing in the furniture business within a few years. We're out to expand...
...with actual mileage per gallon: Studebaker Commander, 28.001; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 27.644; Willys Jeepster Four, 26.769; Nash Statesman, 26.122; Ford Eight, 25.994; Mercury, 25.945; Ford Six, 25.915; Lincoln, 25.448; Willys Jeepster Six, 24.973; Nash Ambassador, 24.926; Kaiser Deluxe, 24.713; Plymouth Concord, 24.145; Plymouth Cranbrook, 22.990; Hudson Hornet Six, 22.623; Chevrolet Styleline, 22.041; Packard 200, 22.023; Cadillac 60 Special, 21.979; Cadillac 61, 21.719; De Soto Deluxe, 21.622; Cadillac 62, 21.531; Chrysler Imperial, 21.178; Packard 300, 20.941; Chrysler Windsor, 20.886; De Soto Custom, 19.921; Cadillac 75, 19.869; Hudson Commodore Custom Six, 19.950; Chrysler Crown Imperial, 19.208; Lincoln Cosmopolitan...
...Chevrolet Division got the first installment of its biggest defense order: a contract to produce jet engines for the Air Force. Production site: an idle plant at Tonawanda, N.Y., where Chevrolet turned out 60,766 Pratt & Whitney radial engines during World...