Word: mg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars. Explained the show's curator, Arthur Drexler: "Automobiles... are no less worthy of being appraised for their visual appeal than were Venetian gondolas [and] English landaus." In the museum garden, blending nicely with its modern sculpture, were ten recent models: a Lancia and Siata from Italy, an MG and Aston-Martin from Britain, a snappy little Porsche from Germany, a Cométe and a Simca from France. The three U.S. models: a 1953 Studebaker, a Nash-Healey (standard Nash engine, with British chassis and Italian coachwork), and a big, hand-built Cunningham convertible with a long, oval...
Last week in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Victor P. Wordsworth reported that B-6 can also cure a much more common complaint: an overdose of alcohol. "A typical case," wrote Wordsworth, "was a woman of 45, brought in singing, swearing and staggering." She was given a 100-mg. hypodermic shot of B6. "The results were far more dramatic than I anticipated . . . Three minutes [later] she became quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused us, and asserted she felt quite sober. She was able to walk across the room perfectly steadily...
...eyes of Texas-some 35,000 pairs of them-were on sprawling Bergstrom Air Force Base at Austin this week. The biggest crowd in Texas sports-car history turned up for a chance at the gate prizes-a Jaguar, an MG and a Studebaker-and the promised thrills and spills of four races, jointly sponsored by the Sports Car Club of America and General Curtis LeMay's Strategic Air Command...
...began showing signs of listlessness and lameness in one leg. Leach's veterinarian, Dr. James T. Dixon, diagnosed Larry's ills as rheumatoid arthritis. While Larry lost weight-and his interest in heifers-Leach persuaded a friend at Merck & Co., Inc. to send him thirty-six 500-mg. bottles of cortisone...
...York). It has since sold 4,000. Last spring Ford started making a slightly bigger version, the Zephyr 6. But the British automakers still manage to dominate the American small car market. Since 1949 they have nearly doubled the sales of Hillmans, Austins and the low-slung MG. It now looks as if the market for small cars is finally getting big enough to make it really worth while for U.S. automakers...