Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concern was shared by Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana, who observed that "murder by motor at home is just as deadly as murder by mortar in Viet Nam." New Hampshire's Norris Cotton objected that the Government "now spends almost as much on the safety of ducks as it does on the traffic safety needs of 190 million people." To prove its resolve, the Senate Commerce Committee approved a measure establishing federal standards for tires...
...They received tickets for a performance of a traveling opera company and invitations to a formal military ball. They were taken on tours of the city and boat rides down the San Antonio River. When they finally got around to going to bed at the recently constructed El Tropicano Motor Hotel, the reporters found four members of the chamber of commerce on duty around the clock. All a man had to do was lift up his phone and put in his order...
Straight comparisons between the two years are tricky because General Motors squeezed so much production into the first two months of 1965 in order to make up for a strike. Yet Detroit is somewhat disappointed that production declined from 1,807,000 in the first nine weeks of last year to 1,740,000 in the same period this year. The first ten days of March seem brighter: though G.M. sales were down slightly from last year's rate, Ford Motor's Ford Division was up 20% to an alltime high for that period, and statisticians estimate that...
...General Motors, the big Pontiac is steady, while the intermediate Tem pest is up; the big Olds is slightly down, the F85 is up; the Chevelle and Chevy II are up, but sales of the compact Corvair are down by more than $100 million so far this model year, partly because of publicity about accident suits. Ford Motor can scarcely produce enough Mustangs and Lincolns to meet demand, but its Comet is a disappointment, and the compact Falcon is 13% behind last year's sales. At Chrysler, the compact Dart and Valiant are down, but the big Chrysler...
...Sloan car [Feb. 25], at least one of G.M.'s vehicles was named after its inventor: the Oldsmobile, named after Ransom Eli Olds, and first produced in 1887 as a three-wheeled, steam-powered horseless carriage. In 1900, the "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile was developed at the Olds Motor Works. It was some time later that the Oldsmobile became associated with...