Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Riffling through his sharply focused snapshot memories of some 80 greats and near greats, M.G.M. comes down to the finish line with a recent interview with Paris' rocketing young Bernard Buffet, who in the last decade has shot from abject poverty to Rolls-Royce status. Such luck was rare in the old days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with...
...General Motors merely to wrap up a market for paint. Although the Supreme Court ruled that by its working control of G.M., Du Pont had been able to force its products on the automaker (specifically that Du Pont had supplied General Motors with about 67% of its paint and finish supplies, between 38% and 52% of its textile requirements in the years 1946 and 1947), the two items together make up only about 2% (or $20) of an auto's total cost. Du Font's total G.M. business amounted to only about 3% of the company...
...increasing costs the only problem facing administrators. To acquire an education in today's fast-paced world requires too much time. Students coming from secondary schools face a long gamut of college, military service, and graduate school. Often they are twenty-five or twenty-six before they finish their education...
...pulled in for the third time. Just 34 seconds later the Belond was filled with gas, oil and water, three of its tires had been replaced and it was rolling on new rubber. Sam was still six seconds in the lead. By the time he whipped past the finish flag, he was 17.35 seconds in front of Jim Rathmann's Chiropractic Special (named after its sponsor, Chiropractor Ray Sabourin). He had careened around the 500-lap course in 3 hr. 41 min. 14.25 sec., an average of 135.601 m.p.h.-the fastest 500 on record...
...theory that less power would mean less speed. It meant just the opposite. Smaller engines allowed smaller cars. The "bombs" that turned out for the 500 had never been lighter, had never handled so well on the turns. As a result, the first ten to finish all beat the late Bill Vukovich's 130.84 m.p.h. record...