Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soft June afternoon burst to a deep, mechanical snarl, and the gently rolling countryside south of Le Mans, France came alive as 54 low-slung sports cars whirled into the start of "les vingt-quatre heures," auto racing's classic Grand Prix of Endurance. Once more the famous 24-hour race promised spectacular trouble. Last year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous...
Bull by the Tail. This year Jimmy will make $100,000-a measure of the boom that country music is enjoying throughout much of the U.S. "Country music's like an eating cancer," says Gay. "Once you start with it, you've got a bull by the tail. That music takes over...
...JAPANESE IMPORTS of sewing machines are grabbing almost 50% of U.S.-market, says Cleveland's White Sewing Machine Corp., which lost its major customer when Sears, Roebuck switched from White to Japanese machines priced as low as $37.88. Fighting back, White will cut its domestic output, expects to start selling Japanese-and German-made machines for prices "considerably lower" than its U.S.-made machines...
...fast becoming as necessary as neon lights for any ocean, lake or riverside U.S. town with vacation-spot ambitions: a first-class marina to serve as a combination club, garage and general store for the nation's ever-increasing yachtsmen. Last week Panama City was about to start work on not one but two big marinas with dock space for 570 boats along its Gulf Coast waterfront and every convenience under the yachtsman's sun: water, ice, electricity and telephone service, gas and repair facilities, a dozen stores, barber and beauty shops, a restaurant, even a nightclub. Estimated...
...mile) Atlantic Coast Line, succeeding Champion McDowell Davis, 77, who is retiring as one of the industry's senior executives after 64 years of service. A railroader ever since he won his B.S. degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1934, President Rice got his start as a $155-a-month assistant engineer on the Pennsylvania, moved up to track superintendent by 1942, when he was called to active duty in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in a railway battalion and later (as a lieutenant colonel) in charge of the Army-operated Iranian State Railway in the Middle...