Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro's lot would have been only slightly improved under Lincoln or Johnson, was it still inevitable that he would profit little from Reconstruction? In discussing the program of the Radicals, Stampp answers, No, well, maybe. To a small core of Republicans the war would not be won without social and political revolution in the South. Their goal was to reverse the Black Codes passed under Johnson, establish military government, and give the Negro civil and political rights. But when the Union armies departed, as ultimately they had to, the Negro would not be able to maintain his newly acquired...
...Director John Edgar Hoover has been a Washington institution nearly as long as the Lincoln Memorial (41 years v. 43) and, particularly over the past year, has weathered plenty of criticism. But the old crime fighter and Communist hunter sticks by his tommy guns, as he displayed in testimony released last week, before a House appropriations subcommittee...
...record 400,000 annual-sales rate, have raised their share of the market from 3.9% to 4.6% since 1963. General Motors' Cadillac, the long-established expensive-car leader, has set new sales records for 16 consecutive ten-day periods, this year had its best first quarter in history. Lincoln Continental is in its fifth straight year of sales increase, has doubled its 1960 sales rate...
Aware of the trend, others have invaded what was once the domain of Cadillac (basic Detroit price for a four-door sedan with standard equipment: $5,247), Lincoln ($6,292) and the Chrysler Imperial ($5,795). The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, the Buick Electra 225 and the Chrysler New Yorker, top models in traditional medium-price lines, have evolved into luxury cars and penetrated the $4,000 mark. A growing array of luxury sports cars has also entered the field. Copying the early success of Ford's Thunderbird ($4,486 for a two-door hardtop), Detroit has made such entries...
Testing Pioneers. Luxury cars include as standard equipment the automatic transmission, power brakes and power steering that are optional on less expensive cars. More carefully assembled and inspected than other cars, they offer larger engines, better suspension and insulation, more comfortable seats. Every Lincoln Continental, for example, gets a twelve-mile road test before being delivered to the dealer. Accessories are also grander. For an extra $495, a Cadillac buyer can get a combination heating-and-air-conditioning system that automatically maintains the temperature of his choice throughout the year; for another $141, his car will be upholstered in genuine...