Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become carnies? Usually, says Krassowski, carnies are the children or the relatives of carnies. Others achieve the status by accident. In one town a local carpenter challenged a sideshow wrestler to a bout; when he won, he decided to join the carnival for good. In another town a local auto mechanic was called in to help fix a Ferris wheel, and just never left. A college zoologist worked at a carnival one summer, resigned his job at the college, now runs a snake show. A California social worker is now reading palms in a "mitt camp...
...into new plants and equipment (v. $26 billion in 1952), thus continue to create jobs as fast as the work force expands to fill them. A record $4.2 billion in construction starts last month will soon be topped as the huge federal highway program moves into high gear. The auto industry will spend well over $1 billion for drastic restyling of ten (out of 19) U.S. makes, expects to equal or top the 1955 sales peak of 7,900,000 cars...
Pint-Size Engine. American Motors has developed a 4-cylinder air-cooled engine weighing only 200 Ibs. v. Nash Rambler's 450-lb engine. Made largely of aluminum, the 62-h.p. motor occupies half the space of a conventional water-cooled auto engine. It will also be available next year in bigger units (6 and 8 cylinders) for use in autos, air-transported military vehicles, and stationary equipment, e.g., pumps, generators...
Right Time. Most 1957 auto models will have a new kind of clock, developed by General Time Corp., containing a device which automatically adjusts the clock to run on time. If the hands are set forward to correct a clock that has been running slow, the regulator makes the clock run at a faster rate. When hands are set back, the clock automatically adjusts to a slower rate...
Consumer Reaction. In Hollywood, goaded by the sight of glittering new Oldsmobiles in an auto agency, unemployed Painter Clifford Frazier wheeled his dilapidated 1951 Chevrolet through the showroom window, smashed against a new Holiday sedan, explained: "I was mad at the world...