Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lunch the group got down to business. Connecticut's Meade Alcorn was retiring as national chairman (TIME, April 13), Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton had been mentioned to succeed him. Was the President agreeable? Ike. who had hand-picked Morton five weeks earlier, went along with custom, announced that he would be very pleased indeed. Added he in an uncustomary tribute to Meade Alcorn: "I sure did like that guy, and it made me so mad tohave to lose...
...Price, 6-Cylindef: Chevrolet Biscayne, 22.3788 m.p.g.; Chevrolet Biscayne, 21.9439 m.p.g.; Ford Custom 300, 20.3288 m.p.g...
...Price, 8-Cylinder: Plymouth Belvedere, 21.1544 m-p-g-; Plymouth Belvedere, 20.9880 m.p.g.; Ford Custom 300, 19.6698 m.p.g...
High-Price: Cadillac 62, 19.0352 m.p.g.; Chrysler Imperial Custom,18.2027 m.p.g.; Lincoln, 17.2739 m.p.g...
...Japan's Toyopet Crown Custom, a four-cylinder, four-door family car with top speed of 80 m.p.h., and 33 miles per gal. Price...