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...Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann Lang, Le Mans winner, brought his Mercédès in second, followed by Luigi Chinetti in a Ferrari. The stock-car race was even more of a runaway for the 1953 Lincolns (see BUSINESS). The 205-h.p. Lincolns, mounting four-barrel carburetors and heavy-duty shock absorbers, were led by A.A.A. Champion Driver Chuck Stevenson with a 90.96 m.p.h. average. Lincolns finished 1-2-3-4. Only 39 of the 91 starters finished, but in contrast to the mayhem of the past two races, only one driver, Mexican Santos Letona Diaz...
...sleep, calls sleeplessness "culture's greatest ally." He drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights or races. Once, after a well-wisher introduced...
...Surely the bottom of the debauchery barrel was scraped to gain material for these books...
...scraping the bottom of the labor barrel (unemployment was at a new postwar low of 1,438,000, only 2% of the work force), automakers were able to add second shifts and keep output up. Ward's Automotive Reports predicted that October production would total 623,000 cars and trucks, best monthly record in a year and a half. Industry was still expanding fast. Construction outlays totaled $9 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly level in history...
...line will also help the California oil industry. Since California wells can't keep up with consumption, oilmen are pumping their wells so hard that they are clogging the pores in the oil sands, thus endangering the future yield. By offering to ship the first barrels for 60? and promising to slice that down to 50? when his volume goes up, Glasco expects to chop a dollar in transportation costs off every barrel that now goes by tanker or rail...