Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
When the press contingent caught up with Ike in the morning, photographers begged him to repeat his trip to Suribachi. He agreed. On the way out, the official party transferred from a Chevrolet sedan to a jeep for the last steep part of the climb. Said Charlie Wilson, soon to resign as president of General Motors: "Why are we changing to the jeep?" Replied the driver: "That hill's too steep for the Chevrolet to make it." "Are you sure?" pressed Wilson. "I'm damned sure, sir," said the driver. When Wilson was gone, the G.I. snorted...
...GRAHAM'S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby Sandia Mountains with the season's first snow, some 7,000 people are already waiting in the steel and tar-paper structure-the largest indoor gathering ever assembled in Albuquerque. A Plymouth sedan drives up, and out of it steps the Rev. William Franklin (Billy) Graham, showman, salesman, pressagent, preacher- the hottest Protestant soul-saver since the late Billy Sunday quit the sawdust trail. Albuquerque last week had the honor of celebrating Billy Graham's birthday: he had just turned...
...which he has left strictly alone. On a long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned Pullman, that rides high over the rutted dirt roads...
...that Jaguar Motors Ltd. last week opened a sprawling new 1,000,000-sq.-ft. plant at Coventry to boost production from 720 to 1,000 cars a month. Jaguar is aiming three-fourths of this production at the dollar market. Moreover, it is concentrating on its Mark 7 sedan angled especially toward American and Canadian tastes and powered with the same motor as its speedy XK-120 roadster. Where Jaguar sold 2,886 cars in the U.S. last year, this year it will sell 4,000 at around $4,000 each, next year expects to sell...