Word: literally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wine harvest was coming on, and the vats of France were already sloshing full of a billion-liter surplus of wine. The country was in danger of becoming one vast cavern of undrunk wine. Last week, sensitive to the pressure of the winegrowers, who are France's most powerful farm bloc, the government set out to soak up the surplus...
...liter Ferrari (June 6) is too much even for the great Ascari...
...complained U.A.W. Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, "and he'll tell you how to make a watch." One Small Beer. When the Reuther brothers were touring Europe, they arrived hot and hungry one night in Munich's Hofbräuhaus. Victor challenged Walter to down a liter of bock beer before dinner. He did and has not cared for drinking since. At cocktail parties he takes a Manhattan, eats the cherry and leaves the drink. At a union meeting once, he promised to "have fun with the boys afterwards" in return for a favorable vote. Reuther won the vote...
...strip that in some places is little wider than an old-fashioned two-lane U.S. highway. During the trials, the Mercedes team's Pierre Levegh, a 49-year-old veteran of 20 years' driving, coasted into the pits after one close brush with a little 2-liter French Gordini and told a friend: "We have to get some sort of signal system working. Our cars go too fast." But there were other things to think about when race day dawned fine, dry and made for speed. On the dot of 4 p.m. the 60 sports-car entrants-among...
...landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...