Word: brakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the new autos rolling off the nation's assembly lines this week are two sporty but little-known models with features that no other U.S. cars can match. The cars: 1901 Oldsmobiles, enjoying a jaunty revival in the era of the tail fin and the power brake. The cars are manufactured a scant five miles apart in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. by American Air Products Corp. (whose slogan is "The Backward Look") and by Starts Manufacturing Co. They began producing the cars last year as specialty items and display models for auto dealers and stores. But the antique Oldses...
...enough to exert real pressure on steel, aluminum, glass or rubber capacity. So a good strong demand in autos will not spread great demand pressures through the economy." And just as there are ample materials, so is there still an ample labor supply to keep a brake on wages...
Under fire, Red pilots have shown their inexperience. Some have crash-dived into the sea trying to escape. One Nationalist pilot came up on the tail of a MIG. To his astonishment, the confused Red panicked, put on his brake flaps, slowed to 100 m.p.h. "I shouldn't really take credit for that one," said the pilot. "It was just like shooting down a flying barn door...
...first play, and in the happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much Tom earned, Rhoda could not get over the fear that the theater was a precarious life. Her fetish was security, and when she met Presley Brake, founder of Monolith Security Mutual. Tom said: "I know Rhoda's going to love him." She did not, but while Tom was away in World War II, she married...
...feeding coded instructions into computers, a flight instructor can suddenly and without warning create emergency conditions, such as brake or control-surface locking, icing, failures of power. To lend realism, a TV picture of a huge scale model of an airfield shows the pilot how the appearance of the ground changes as he takes off and lands. In addition to United, eleven other lines will school their pilots for the jet age on Link trainers, both for the DC-8 and Boeing 707. The trainers will save the lines huge sums, since it costs only $36 an hour to learn...