Even so, Chrysler moved close to 125,000 automobiles for the model 12 months, down from the 128,000 of '56 however nonetheless good for tenth in business manufacturing. Distinguished by a more-formal roofline with closed-in rear quarters a la the Cadillac Sixty Special, the newcomer managed a creditable 34,000 sales for its shortened debut mannequin 12 months. Having regained its production stride in 1947-48, Chevy rolled out a record 1,010,000 cars for 1949. Ford, nonetheless, managed about 10...

The first organized international competition involving winter sports was launched just five years after the beginning of the trendy Olympics in 1896. This competitors, the Nordic Games, included only athletes from the Scandinavian countries and was held quadrennially in Sweden, starting in 1901. Figure skating was included in the Olympics for the first time within the 1908 Summer Games in London, though the skating competitors was not really held until October, some three months after the oppo...