Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Orchestra Leader Guy Lombardo finished his nightly stint at the Roosevelt Hotel, headed for his home in Long Island and drove his sleek British Jaguar straight into a traffic tragedy. Result: one man killed, a woman seriously injured. Lombardo was released without being charged; the pedestrians had apparently stepped into the street against a traffic light...
...nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial city is in danger of becoming another Shanghai...
...James R. Warren of Omaha, filed suit. Warren charged that he had prospected with Ziegler, and was entitled to 50% of Bonanza. But Ziegler, who claimed that he had paid Warren in full for his services, professed to be unworried. He dashed off to buy a $4,000 Jaguar and a $10,000 Rolls-Royce for himself ("only a small one"), a big diamond for Isabella. The rest of the money, says he, will go to developing other properties he has leased near Worland. Says Ziegler: "It will be easier this time...
...forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush the words down through the hierarchy of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corp...
...little time for watching other drivers as he increased his speed, sometimes to 118, through the winding Apennines roads and finally thundered into Rome, the halfway mark. Enthusiastic Romans cheered and kissed him, told him he was in the lead and that Champion Biondetti's Jaguar had dropped out for emergency repairs. "For the first time I thought I might win," Gianni recalled later...