Word: slung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his own men. After that, he will try to turn into reality his own grandiose schemes for American railroading: a flashy advertising and promotion campaign to boost railroad travel; large-scale financing to buy new equipment (including as much as $250 million to be sunk into his low-slung "Train X"); reducing debt by having the railroad buy up its own bonds, and pressuring the ICC to raise freight rates. Eventually, too, another old dream would fit into the master plan: merging the Central and C. & O. into the biggest railroad system in the U.S. If ICC opposition...
...This week Cramer had a chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
Chrysler, which has lagged behind the style parade, this week showed off a pair of new low-slung experimental models, the Plymouth Belmont and the Dodge Fire-arrow. Though Chrysler sold 1.6% fewer cars (1,224,000) last year than in 1952, it still leads the horsepower race with its 235-h.p. engine. But its conservative styling has not helped sales, and it has already been forced to cut back production of some of its 1954 models. To remedy the situation, Chrysler Corp. expects to incorporate some of the ideas of its racy experimental cars in a complete model change...
...overstaying his leave in a brunette's apartment) before he was 19. Two years later he was famous as the leader of the Gelignite Gang, which specialized in blowing safes. "Eddie gets nervous at the thought of anything locked up," said friends proudly. He drove a low-slung car, had a West End flat stocked with a succession of girls, and was well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night in Edinburgh, Eddie was released on bail, promptly went to London and scooped up enough cash to bail out his two friends. With...
Symbol of new Brown unity, the low slung "Refectory" serves 3000 meals to faculty and students at lunch and dinner. The reverse of Harvard, where freshman life in the yard, Brown relegates the newcomers to scattered dormitories 100 years old. From there, they all trudge daily to the "Refree." While once the fraternity boys isolated themselves in their own "off-campus" dining room, today they rub elbows with the commuter and independent--if just at meals. Living in houses distinguished only by the greek-lettering over the doorways, the chapter man's one concession from the university is the questionable...