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Along the streets more bodies were piling up. Drunken riders lost control, pitched off on their heads and lay still. Outside Angels Camp a girl riding behind her husband was killed when he slammed into a gasoline tanker. Two hoodlum outriders headed toward the fair grounds, the A.M.A. territory. They charged a formation of six A.M.A. riders just topping a rise in the road. All eight crunched together in a pile of twisted metal and spinning wheels. When the wheels slowed, two of the eight were dying. Carried to an ambulance with his foot sheared off, A.M.A.'s Richard...
...stop the purchase of all Convair B58 bombers and F106 jet fighters, halt the procurement of McDonnell's F-101B jet fighter, Republic's F-105 jet fighter and Lockheed's C-130 transport, might also slow down production of Boeing's KC-135 jet tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes's Falcon and Martin's Matador...
...down $12 and rented a baby buggy for three months. In San Francisco a businessman was negotiating to rent two four-engined planes, worth $4,500,000, through Commercial-Pacific Corp. In Pittsburgh a shipper was dickering with National Equipment Leasing Corp. to rent a 15-tanker fleet costing $126 million. On land, sea and air there is a nationwide boom in equipment leasing, and rental companies are sprouting across the U.S. to supply everything from oil barges to a fleet of diesel engines, a complete rolling mill or a city power plant...
Common Complaint. But if the three kings seemed to have cut loose from Nasser on East-West issues, they appeared bent on making it up to their brother Arab by re-emphasizing their solidarity against Israel. After the U.S. flag tanker Kern Hills, on Israeli charter, sailed through the Gulf of Aqaba to unload Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even...
...sudden prosperity was the very uniqueness that had kept it unobtrusive. A nonintegrated producer that purchases pig iron and scrap for its twelve open-hearth furnaces, it specialized in heavy steel plate, therefore cashed in on the peak demand for heavy plate caused largely by the oil tanker boom...