Word: tire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
...class: 139.373 m.p.h. Chryslers of the same model ran the mile at least 10 m.p.h. slower. To get such spectacular performance out of his big (340 h.p.) car, Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...
Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge averages four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...
Water for Both. Next morning the law-school quadrangle was filled with some 500 blue-shirted centurions armed with truncheons, tire chains and pistols. They greeted arriving students with shouts of "A par los senoritos!" (Let's get the little sissies). In the battle that followed, students dropped tables and desks from classrooms on Falange heads, tore up furniture to make weapons. The S.E.U. offices in the law school were attacked, files were burned and Falangist symbols destroyed...
...little item. It was made up of a couple of crooks, a couple of priests, the Never Worry Finance Co., a magenta automobile that one of the priests calls Rosey, and $35,000 in cash, robbed from a bank, that the crooks have hidden in Rosey's spare tire. Unfortunately, neither the author, the director nor the actors seemed to realize that the strength of farce rests on credibility and surprise. The incidents that were not predictable were unbelievable, and both crooks and priests were written as amiable idiots. Hume Cronyn as one of the priests and Peter Lorre...