Word: hy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more horsepower and higher and higher speed," said the American Automobile Association recently. Last week, as more and more of 1956's new models hit the showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers were so high that state legislators talked seriously about cutting speed...
...vacationing in Jamaica recently, his followers were in full swing. Chicago Attorney Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic National Chairman, was spending a third of his time politicking for Stevenson -and giving free rein to his own ambition to be governor of Illinois. One of Mitchell's law partners, Hy Raskin, was working full-time on behalf of Stevenson...
...production last week of a new semiautomatic hydraulic transmission system similar to Dodge's fluid drive. With it, the clutch is used only to get into high gear and reverse; after that, no shifting is needed. Plymouth, which will get into full production by April, expects to sell Hy-Drive on 40% of its 1953 output. Cost as optional equipment: $145.80, or at least $30 cheaper than the automatic drives of competitors...
...thing of violence and sensuality, set out in the glares and black shadows of fin de siecle romanticism. Singing in clipped, high-tension German, lustful Lulu causes one violent death after another among her helpless lovers. Then the pace slackens and she moves sonorously toward her own destruction hy Jack the Ripper...
After the Democratic labor leaders thumbed down Vice President Alben Berkley, 74, as a presidential candidate, the New York Herald Tribune's Columnist Hy Gardner compiled a roster of some union oldsters who are still going strong: William Green, 79, John L. Lewis, 72, Philip Murray, 66, James C. Petrillo and David Dubinsky, both...