Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PONTIAC will also get a wheel-to-roof new styling job, emphasizing a flat, low hood and a smooth, long-looking line. Engines will be slightly more powerful, and air suspension will be optional. One newcomer: the Ventura, a super-sporty hardtop convertible with a beefed-up engine...
...million to get ready for production, is no radical car of the future. Yet it has enough new gadgets to intrigue most motorists, e.g., an elaborate dashboard whose speedometer glows red when the car reaches a preset speed, an automatic transmission with buttons in the center of the steering wheel. The engine will be a V-8 with a horsepower rating around...
...Copper-ore deposits of 25 million tons were discovered 100 miles from the Atlantic Coast at Akjoujt. France figures that she can yearly produce 60,000 tons of 25% copper concentrate, ship it to port on new 40-ton, 26-wheel desert trucks which French industry is turning out at the rate of 15 a month...
Squinting down the highway, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, at the wheel of a potato-laden tractor-trailer, saw the old flat-bed lumbering into the intersection, hit his brakes in a 147-ft. skid. The heavy tractor slammed into the rear of the workers' truck, threw the truck's people like broken jackstraws across the highway and into the ditches. Twelve of the crumpled people along route 301 were killed outright by the crushing fall; two more were burned alive in a bright ball of gasoline-fed flame. By week's end 20 of the migrants, including...
Farsighted Gamblers. Before Strickland came to town, every cub reporter in New Orleans knew that Sheriff William S. Coci's Jefferson Parish was the place to roll dice on green felt tables and bet on the hushed whirl of the roulette wheel. But no reporter could document the story in depth because the farsighted gamblers had taken the precaution of getting pictures of every newsman in town. When a reporter showed up, sharp-eyed bouncers gave him the thumb...