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...labukh, or musician, particularly a lobat (jazzman). One's own tachka (literally, wheelbarrow), or car. All firmennye (gone guys) and any klevaya chuvikha (classy chick). Anyone with a kusok (one G in rubles) or enough bashli (dough) for a zhelezny (terrific) night on the town and a motor (taxi) back to the khata...
...seldom traveled more than a few towns down the road. Recalls Moore: "In my first year a man wanted to buy a ticket to Dallas. I told him he couldn't get there by bus." But Moore learned quickly. In 1943 he bought Fort Worth's Bowen Motor Coaches with the help of a group of backers and soon decided that "the more miles of route you've got, the more miles you've got to spread your overhead out on." In 1945 he am bitiously renamed the line Continental Trailways...
...motorist has ever seen. Still shrouded in deep corporate secrecy, the new car was nonetheless already the talk of Detroit. Christened Avanti (Italian for "Forward"), it is finless, aerodynamically clean, and fast; it may well prove the most talked-of car turned out by any U.S. automaker since Ford Motor Co. introduced its first Thunderbird...
...contrast, the Edsel fiasco cost Ford Motor Co. about $200 million.) With the 1961 write-offs, the great bulk of G.D.'s jet transport losses had presumably been accounted for, and some Wall Streeters were predicting that the company might earn as much as $3.75 a share this year. But under the terms of a $135 million Prudential loan, which requires General Dynamics to make up past losses before it pays out any more cash dividends, shareholders can expect dividends only after future earnings "exceed
Only a fortnight ago, Ford Motor...