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...tuberculosis, he attempted a comeback. Trying for his third Mille Miglia victory in 1948. he was a lonely, ill man. He kept the lead, despite the progressive loss of his Ferrari's bumpers, hood, mudguards and seat cushions. With little more left than its wheels and motor, the tortured car gave up. Nuvolari lost, but not because he "went out to the country" (an ironic term for going off the road...
...corpse on his hands. Fabian looked around the roadside for signs of a struggle. Finding none, he reasoned that the body had been dumped from a car. The Yard's pathologist bore him out. "She had been seated upright . . . after she died," he said. "Seated in a motor car?" asked Fabian. "Something less upholstered," the doctor suggested. Out went Fabian's order: check all trucks that used the road between...
...FORD Motor Co., which makes one of every five U.S. farm tractors, is ready to try for a bigger chunk of the farm-equipment market. It will shortly put on sale its first full line of farm equipment, including combines, hay balers, corn pickers and cotton harvesters...
...directors voted him a gift of 100,000 shares of stock, then valued at $2.80 a share. A year later, however, roused by Sir John's tax-free present and a similar gift made by Austin Motor Car Co. Ltd. to Managing Director Leonard P. Lord, Britain's Labor government levied a retroactive surtax on such deals, deprived Sir John of 95% of his gift...
...everything from tire-recapping to coffee-roasting, from binding books to freezing ice cream (162 plants) and making brooms and spectacles. It owns some 122,000 housing units, and by the Comptroller General's estimate, rents them at a loss. Every Washington agency operates its own fleet of motor vehicles, although one central motor pool (not to mention taxis) could handle the job. General Services Administration maintains a fleet of trucks for moving Government furniture about Washington, and since some of the trucks may be used only half a day a week, private movers could do it cheaper...