Archive for February 7th, 2010


High-speed rail would get Michigan's economy back on track
AnnArbor.com
Michigan rode the automobile to prosperity in the 1950s and '60s. But now we find ourselves falling further and further behind in the new economy. ...

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USA Today

Automakers pin hopes on Super Bowl Sunday ads
USA Today
It will showcase the Dodge Charger R/T to show it has "real driving vehicles with muscle car power and sports car handling," spokesman Gualberto Ranieri ...

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Marian Catholic senior pens racing book
Southtown Star
"We should combine the aesthetics from the 1950s and 1960s with modern technology," he said. "Car knowledge is becoming a lost art. ...

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Fiat 500C 1.2 Pop
ic Liverpool
... but the most distinctive and desirable must surely be the Fiat 500C, the modern interpretation of the fabric topped baby car from the 1950s. ...

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AFP

Ice skaters, car drivers mingle on Czech world-record rink
AFP
A dam built on the Vltava river to generate hydro-electric power in the 1950s created the lake that holds pride of place in this once sleepy zone now a ...

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Ursuline grad writes book on radio
Warren Tribune Chronicle
Regional networks, which increased in number from the 1930s into the 1950s, offered regionally tailored programming to stations with national network ...

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Confusion's day
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
As far back as the 1950s, there was talk of establishing a Presidents Day to celebrate both Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, but it never happened. ...

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'Top Gear' races onto DVD
Toronto Sun
The humour gets caustic on a trip to the US to test American muscle cars while driving from San Francisco to the Bonneville salt flats in Nevada. ...

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