Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic overdrive. In EPA terms it logged .01 m.p.g...
...splats against wheel wells. The transmission howls. Linda Ronstadt, a half-ton Chevy pickup with a ton of yellow birch cordwood aboard, has sunk to her rusty frame in a mushy patch of logging road. Linda has four-wheel drive and a lot of heart, but this is a Sargasso of mud, the kind that bogs the wood lot every year after the leafless forest trees stop drinking water and the October rains come. Linda's friend and owner disembarks to consider the problem...
...could spend the next 20 years just keeping his $5 billion multinational growing in the tighteningly competitive auto market. He is busy now negotiating a deal with Renault to swap Swedish shares for French capital and front-wheel technology. But Gyllenhammar has a cause beyond cars. He is going through the world and warning that the industrial nations have a growing problem: "the mismatch between people and jobs...
...just a little spoke in a big wheel. I'll do what I'm told," he added...
Under the MIC program, an 18-year-old Hartford fellow just getting a license to drive his new Chevy Citation, for example, pays exactly the same as a 35-year-old Hartford housewife climbing behind the wheel of the same model car for the first time. Drivers will receive premium reductions for each year of accident-free motoring, up to a maximum of five consecutive years. MIC estimates that people under 25 will pay an average of 55% less than they have been paying...