Word: motorcars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wring all the mileage they can from new technology, the railroads are promoting piggyback delivery of truck trailers, adopting computer-controlled operations and bookkeeping, devising special-purpose cars to win back shippers. Multilevel auto-rack cars, for instance, have enabled railroads to regain $100 million of motorcar hauling lost to trucks, while saving automakers $200 million. A few rail lines are even making a bid for passengers. Though two of his routes run parallel to new expressways, Chairman Ben Heineman gambled $50 million on modernizing the Chicago and North Western's commuter service-and won. Patronage is now climbing...
...year to break even, was falling short of the mark. In Canada, with lower production costs, the make-money sales point was 20,000 cars a year, which ought to have been attainable. But it wasn't. Last week Studebaker announced that it was shutting down its Canadian motorcar assembly lines and would no longer make any cars...
...meeting did Studebaker identify its potential new boss. He is George Wesley Murphy, 61, a onetime used-car salesman who, from his Honolulu base, has amassed a fortune estimated at some $30 million by parlaying a string of auto dealerships into a diversified empire ranging from an Australian motorcar firm to a 23% interest in San Francisco's Union Sugar...
Outside, amid the purple petunias in the new Jacqueline Kennedy Garden was sculpture, including Oronzio Maldarelli's simple bronze nude, Branca II; down on the south lawn was Jason Seley's Masculine Presence, constructed from motorcar bumpers...
...DAIMLER LIMOUSINE marks the introduction to U.S. distribution of one of the illustrious names in the annals of luxury automobiles. A Daimler was the first motorcar owned by a King of England (Edward VII), and was known for decades as "the car of royalty." Designed primarily to be chauffeur-driven, it has an electrically controlled glass partition between front and rear seats, and the doors open to a full 90° angle, revealing a concealed step for easy entrance and exit. A 4½-liter V-8 engine provides a top speed of 114 m.p.h. The price...