Word: autobahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Autobahn outside Munich, German Motorcyclist Wilhelm Noll set two new unofficial world records for motor cycle with sidecar, with his super-streamlined, three-wheeled B.M.W. (Bayerische Motoren Werke) bike (see cut). From a flying start, Noll hit speeds of 282 kilometers (175 m.p.h.) over a measured kilometer, and 177 m.p.h. over a mile...
Floodwaters on an Autobahn caused a freak chain-reaction smash-up involving 69 cars, trucks and motorcycles...
Snow-Happy Start. For Sheila, things started smoothly. Down the autobahn through Frankfurt and past Cologne, the icy concrete was well sanded, no challenge for veteran drivers and all-weather tires...
...steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
...Heavy trucks on the Autobahn between Berlin and West Germany were waved past Soviet check points that had once held them for days; locks on the Mittelland Canal, closed since last August for "repairs," were mended overnight...