Word: peugeots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geraniums. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 16, Mitterrand left the Brasserie Lipp, favorite haunt of Parisian journalists and politicians, and headed in his blue Peugeot 403 for his apartment on the fashionable Rue Guynemer...
...told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...
Brand-new French Peugeot bicycles cost 1,000 dongs-roughly three years' salary -and the few available ancient autos cost twice that, with the additional handicap that on the black market gasoline is $5 a gallon. Taken on tour of Hanoi's newly cleaned streets and decorated landmarks, Sukarno did not get to see Hanoi's most interesting place, the "bicycle market," where Ming vases and other heirlooms, sold by desperate families, go for less than more useful bicycles...
...National Association of Manufacturers. And throughout the Six, industrial amalgamations and alliances are being negotiated at a dizzying rate. Italy's Alfa Romeo has signed car-marketing agreements with France's Renault and Germany's N.S.U. Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) is negotiating with Peugeot, and France's Conord (household appliances) has already established a subsidiary in Cologne. Even commercial banks are getting into the act: France's Credit Lyonnais and Germany's Dresdner Bank have exchanged 50 employees as part of a training scheme...
TIME, Dec. 3, published a picture of the new Ford hardtop convertible. I would like to point out that in the middle '30s a French automobile manufacturer, Peugeot, put out a similar car, the "Peugeot...