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Word: boblet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of $70,000 sleds, designed and built by General Motors. For years, the best competition bobs have come from an Italian blacksmith named Evaldo D'Andrea, who produces 20 handcrafted, slipper-shaped Podar sleds a year, at prices ranging from $1,300 (for a two-man "boblet") to $1,575 (for a four-man model). Two years ago, a U.S. Air Force general with a yen for bobsledding suggested to some G.M. executives that it was time to end the Podar monopoly. G.M. was only too happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: Rule Britannia--for Now | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

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