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...Buenos Aires last week, competitors in the Argentine Grand Prix took part in one of the hottest motor races on record. As the temperature soared to 104° in the shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...
...name; of a heart ailment; in Camby, Ind. First manufactured in 1911. the Duesenberg racer dominated the Indianapolis Speedway 500-mile race throughout the 1920s From 1929 until 1937, when the Depression killed the demand for high-priced cars ($13,000 and up), the rakish silhouette and high-powered motor (325 h.p. with supercharger, 265 h.p. without) of the celebrated Duesenberg "model J" passenger car made it a favorite with the U.S. and European quality trade, and a model from which manufacturers borrowed features since incorporated in mass-produced American cars...
...past few years, U.S. business has set up a whole series of plans for giving, in 1951 the Ford Motor Co. announced a program that is now not only financing about 70 scholarships a year for the sons and daughters of its employees, but also giving $500 annually to each private college or university the students happen to choose. The Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad has given more than $185,000 since 1951 to private colleges along its route. Du Pont, a longtime giver, now pours $2,500 grants into the chemistry departments of 50 different campuses, expects to give...
...Chicago, big-volume Stallworth Motor Co. came right to the point with prospects, offered a $2,495 fully equipped Customline V-8 Ford for a flat $2,000. Another dealer offered the $4,937 Lincoln Capri at an $800 discount. In Dallas, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Seattle, Plymouths were going at up to $200 off list, Pontiacs up to $500 off, DeSotos up to $700 off. Exceptions in the price war are Ford's Thunderbird. the big Chryslers, the new torsion-bar Packards (just going into production), and Cadillac...
...pleasure-boat industry climbed over the $1 billion mark for the first time in 1954. Last week, as boatbuilders opened the biggest national Motor Boat Show in history, the outlook for 1955 was even better. On opening night alone, some 25,000 fans jammed into New York City's Kingsbridge Armory to see 380 boats and thousands of gadgets from 233 exhibitors...