Word: harley
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ANTITRUST PROBE of General Motors will be made by West Virginia Democrat Harley Kilgore's Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee. Kilgore has no specific complaint against G.M., but will study it as a case history of big business...
Government Surplus. In Washington, D.C., Representative Harley O. Staggers of West Virginia received a letter from a constituent reading: "Sir: Would you please be so kind as to send my son an official of the U.S.A. for his school work...
...Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across the board. From Killarney to Calcutta, more than 3,500,000 tickets (highest total since...
Lightweight Motorcycle. Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. unveiled a lightweight motorcycle called the Hummer. Weighing 160 lbs., the Hummer will get up to 100 miles per gallon, a top speed of 40 m.p.h. Price: $320 f.o.b. Milwaukee (about $100 under Harley's previous low-priced model...
Prior Art. In Delta, Colo., a month after he sawed a hole in his cell door and escaped from the county jail, Harley Carringer, 24, was recaptured and put in the same cell, used the 50-lb. ball chained to his leg to knock off the new steel plate welded to the door, used the plate to break his heavy chains, escaped again by the same route...