Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Guard plane was a waste of public funds (though they were federal funds). There was an uproar when the state purchasing agent made a special trade-in deal, avoiding the $2,000 limit on the prices for a state auto, to get the governor an air-conditioned Oldsmobile sedan. Another outcry came when he flew to a former lowans' picnic in Long Beach, Calif, in a National Guard plane, and went from there to the Republican National Convention at his own expense. The Des Moines Ministerial Association was apoplectic when he accepted as a gift to the state...
...miles and pierced the sound barrier, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana returned home from a vacation on Corfu, where she and her husband visited King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Once home, Bernhard gave his daughter, Princess Beatrix, her first auto, a Fiat sedan, for passing her high-school final exams. Then, at the horse show in Rotterdam, he saw another daughter, Princess Irene, tie for fourth in the National Junior Championships, and with Juliana watching from the stands, took second place himself in horse training...
Consumer Reaction. In Hollywood, goaded by the sight of glittering new Oldsmobiles in an auto agency, unemployed Painter Clifford Frazier wheeled his dilapidated 1951 Chevrolet through the showroom window, smashed against a new Holiday sedan, explained: "I was mad at the world...
Nine days had passed since the Ford sedan carrying James Hixon Jr., 22, of Salt Lake City and his fiancée Jean Margetts of Sunnyvale, Calif, had disappeared. Then, at dusk, a searching airplane pilot spotted the wreckage at the foot of a 300-ft. embankment in Parley's Canyon, just off heavily traveled U.S. 40, in the Wasatch Mountains, east of Salt Lake. Highway patrolmen clambered down to remove the bodies. Hixon lay dead, 20-ft. from the car. Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted...
...windows in Jenkins' car, a borrowed two-door Pontiac sedan, were rolled up as he pounded around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve...