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...buying will start another scramble for steel, and a shortage like last year's. That will not be known for sure until spring, when automakers learn whether expectations for a 6,500,000-car year are being met. Prospects for meeting that target looked good last week. Ford Motor Co. said that in the first ten days of January it sold 59% more Fords and 30% more Lincolns than the like period last year, the best year-opening period for Fords in history. Steelmen themselves are betting heavily that this will be their biggest year. The American Iron & Steel...
...largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome prints, then drive straight to their rooms, guided by a bicycle-mounted bellhop, without once stepping out of their cars...
Americans spent a record $1.25 billion on boating last year, bringing the nation's pleasure armada to one vessel for every 28 people. Last week, as beaming boatbuilders launched the 47th National Motor Boat Show, the outlook for 1957 was for more clear sailing. Outside Manhattan's cavernous Coliseum, thousands queued up for as long as two hours in near-zero weather to see the biggest boating exhibit ever: 420 boats and thousands of nautical gadgets crammed into seven acres by 363 manufacturers...
...total of 509 complaints received against juveniles last year by the Crime Prevention Bureau of the City Police Department, the following ten, with the number of complaints in parentheses, were the most frequent: larceny (53), destruction of property (46), stubbornness (42), trespassing (38), running away (36), using motor vehicle without authority (30), attempted larceny (26), disturbing the peace (24), assault and battery (19), and gaming with dice and cards...
Died. Louis Semple Clarke, 90, automobile pioneer who built his first car in 1896, a year afterward founded the Pittsburgh Motor Vehicle Co. (later the Autocar Co.), designed the first U.S. sparkplug and circulating oil system, built the nation's first shaft-driven auto; in Palm Beach...