Word: multicar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruggeman believes that playing with trains has a deep appeal for men: "The investor extends his childhood dreams by first buying an oil car, then adding a liquid gas car, then one for chemicals, and finally an automobile transporter." Many multicar families among Algeco's 6,000 investors have their names engraved on the sides of their railroad cars and often appear at the company's offices off the Champs Elysees to check on the location of their cars. Co-Presidents Bruggeman and Thomachot encourage this personal interest by inviting visiting investors to "drop by for a whisky...
...Auto sales in the first quarter were the highest in history, rising 7% over last year and 4% over record 1955. Automen no longer consider what is happening in the industry a boom; taking into account a steadily growing population, the growth of multicar families and the steady spread of suburbia, they feel that the industry has reached an era in which 8,000,000 sales will be a normal year. Some automen are already talking about 10 million a year...