Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUTOS. Steel's biggest customers were somewhat better off. General Motors, which suffered a disastrous first quarter as new-car sales slumped, managed a brighter second quarter as springtime customers appeared. Sales rose 1% in the second quarter, to $5.6 billion, and earnings of $522 million were only 4.4% below last year v. a first-quarter profit drop of 34%. For the half-year, profits were $911,567,400, or 20% below last year. Chrysler's Chairman Lynn Townsend reported improved second-quarter sales of $1.6 billion with earnings off 11%, to $54.4 million, from the year...
...need peace and justice here in Newark and all over New Jersey. They are tearing down our homes and building up medical collages and motor clubs and parking lots and we need decent private homes to live in. They are tearing down our best schools and churches to build a highway...
...beginning, all cars were roofless carriages that exposed their hardy riders to billowing dust, scorching sunshine and drenching rain. Soon pioneers of the automobile spread a canvas canopy over their heads, and the convertible was born. The Peerless Motor Car Corp. of Cleveland introduced its Cape Folding Top in 1905; the "California top"-a removable steel roof with glazed windows-came along in the '20s to decorate the touring car. For the young at heart, whizzing down a highway in an open convertible became the epitome of driving fun. Plymouth made a big hit with prewar youth by bringing...
...critical issues, he did move the German Chancellor to exclaim: "Whether you agree with him or not, what a man!" Next week Canada will be exposed to the treatment. On a five-day visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...
...start operating at De Ridder, La., in 1970. Though Boise Cascade already makes everything from envelopes to cartons, last month it strengthened its position in packaging by acquiring St. Louis' R.C. Can Co., maker of fiber foil and plastic cans for such varied items as premixed biscuits and motor...