Word: colts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose sales have risen 25% this year, American manufacturers have continued to offer autos in the $9,000- to-$12,000 price range long after Japanese carmakers virtually abandoned the segment. In that thrifty category, sales of Chevrolet's vintage Cavalier have risen 26%, while those of the Plymouth Colt and Dodge Spirit...
Once Walton set the look for the show, costume designer William Ivey Long one-upped him with costumes in eye-aching stripes and plaids. They were a homage to, but far more extreme than, Alvin Colt's 1950 originals. Recalls Harvey Sabinson, a press agent on the original production who is now executive director of the League of American Theaters and Producers: "The original had clothing that was funny. These are costumes that are funny -- that's the difference in the level of reality between the two versions...
...tough economic times, the huge appetite for cheap "Saturday-night- sp ecials" -- or both? Last week Colt's Manufacturing Co., a leading maker of commercial and military firearms, filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. A $10 million line of credit proffered by the Connecticut Development Authority and an Austrian bank, Creditanstalt, should give the company, the seventh largest gun producer in the U.S., time to reload and reorganize...
There was a time when Colt's .45 revolver was synonymous with the Wild West. But a decline in military and police orders for quality weapons, foreign competition and a seemingly insatiable public hunger for automatic weapons and cheap handguns combined to stifle the 156-year-old firm...
...Kennedy's killing, Oswald was shot to death in the basement of Dallas' municipal building by strip-joint operator Jack Ruby as a stunned nation watched on live television. Last week the gun used in the killing went on the auction block in New York City. The .38-cal. Colt Cobra revolver, which Ruby had bought for $62.50 at a Dallas gun shop, sold...