Word: astra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first big postwar coming-out party, the debut of the 1949 Chevrolet and Pontiac, General Motors Corp. had spent a million dollars. The world's biggest automaker had bundled threescore U.S. automotive editors (and plenty of potables) aboard its Astra Domed, diesel-drawn "Train of Tomorrow," for a free ride from Detroit to New York. It would pick up the tab for a three-day whirl of luncheons, receptions and banquets for 5,000 people. All over the U.S., G.M. dealers were also cutting capers; Omaha Chevrolet dealers sent a flagpole sitter aloft for nine days...
...passenger gazed last week at four-color advertisements of the new, promised land, he was bothered by a small, nagging doubt. There were radios in every room, built-in nurseries, movie theaters, lounge cars with Astra Domes, and trim hostesses. Were these wonders for him, or just for the cross-the-country glamor trade? Would he still have to stand in line 20 minutes or more for a seat in the diner? Would trains still lurch like a wounded moose on jolting roadbeds? Perhaps what the passenger really wanted was less fluorescent and chromium luxury and more plain, old-fashioned...
...eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
Germany's biggest triumph of the week occurred when Rumania took over the British and Dutch-controlled vast Astra Romana oil company. Rumania expelled twelve French oil executives. Week earlier Rumania had ordered all tank cars in the possession of oil companies put at the disposal of the State railways. Allied-owned and chartered tankers on the Rumanian Danube were halted, a probable prelude to outright requisitioning. All this indicated that Germany would eventually receive practically all Rumanian oil exports (4,177,554 metric tons in 1939) except that from U. S.-owned wells...