Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still other reports tell of an unsuccessful ambush of a Castro motor caravan in Pinar del Rio province, and a bomb planted at a Cuban power plant where Castro was scheduled to talk...
...Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt. The 50-ft., $100,000 Hatteras usually comes off the ways weighed down with stereo tape and record...
Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in Terre Haute...
...wanted more than vague metallic threats. It wanted war−and now. Trains and buses brought adherents from as far as Jammu, north of Kashmir, and more than 250,000 saffron-clad demonstrators marched from the ancient Red Fort to Parliament, led by eleven buglers and 200 men on motor scooters. In unison, the throng chanted such slogans as, "Shastri, you cannot beg peace, you have to win it!" and "Tit for tat is the right policy against Pakistan...
Layoffs & Cutbacks. Ford Motor Co. Ltd., Britain's second largest automaker, put 10,000 workers on a four-day week, starting this week. Reason: the credit restrictions imposed by Labor in June have cut home demand (exports are at record levels). Hoover Ltd., a major washing-machine maker, ordered 4,000 Welsh and Scottish workers onto a short week starting Sept. 6. The Transport Ministry postponed for six months about half of the $140 million in road building that was to have started shortly. Most telltale of all, unemployment leaped by 58,333−a startling...