Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only games played, the Yankees continued their winning ways by defeating Washington, 4 to 1, as Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra homered, and Detroit topped Kansas City...
From General Motors Corp.'s research shops last week came a torpedo-shaped car with a revolutionary new engine. Called the XP-50O, the car is powered by a 250-h.p. "free-piston" engine that many Detroit engineers think may be the intermediate stage between today's piston-engine cars and tomorrow's gas turbines...
This engine has many qualities that may endear it to Detroit and the motoring public. Like the gas turbine engine, it will run on the lowest grades of fuel, will even run on peanut oil. It needs no crankshaft or connecting rods, and it has so few rotating parts that friction and wear are far less than in standard piston engines. Furthermore, unlike the gas turbine, its turbine wheel runs cool, hence does not require costly heat-resistant alloys. General Motors has no immediate plans to produce the free-piston engine. But G.M.'s engineers hope that its debut...
...worried group of stockholders met in Detroit early this week at the Studebaker-Packard annual meeting. There they heard a statement from President James J. Nance that the company was in trouble...
Whether President Nance will stay with the corporation is still up in the air, since he has been offered several other jobs. In any case, he has earned the respect of Detroit's tough tycoons. Under Nance, in the 18 months since the merger...