Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gains. Most of the new jobs are held by white-collar workers, who have composed a majority of the labor force since 1955. These white-collar workers are notably reluctant to join unions, particularly since management is willing to give them most of the benefits that the old lunch-bucket unionists had to fight...
...script tells the sordid story of a boy who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth and uses it to sup with the Devil. At ten. Arnie is running his own crime syndicate on Manhattan's Lower East Side. At 20, he is running a bucket shop. Soon he sets up a gambling house, and moves in on the horse parlors. But after fingering a little punk (Rooney) who has served him loyally, the rat (as he did in real life) catches a fatal dose of lead poisoning in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel...
...lost their once-lofty fins. The new Imperials have a sharp, straight rear fender line, the Chryslers a more rakish one that blends into a tapered rear deck. Chrysler's two handsome compacts, Valiant and Lancer, remain essentially unchanged, but each, following the 1962 tide, has acquired a bucket-seated, pizazz version: the Valiant Signet and Lancer Gran Turismo...
Pontiac. Following the 1962 trend toward pizazz. Pontiac has turned out a Grand Prix hardtop coupe replete with stick shift, bucket seats and dual exhaust pipes. To differentiate it from the standard Pontiacs. which have new prow-shaped grilles, the Grand Prix grille is split by a vertical wedge. Like most 1962 cars, Pontiacs have such improved maintenance features as 35.000-mile chassis-lubrication intervals, 4.000-mile oil changes and two-year radiator coolant...
...models is that Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and Studebaker-Packard have all decided to introduce "intermediate" models bigger than their compacts but smaller than their standard cars. In addition, virtually every make will have a "pizazz" model (TIME, July 21) to satisfy the public's craving for bucket seats and floor-mounted manual gearshifts. All this diversity worries the automakers because it shaves their profits with higher manufacturing costs. Yet they are racing headlong into it in the hope that with a year of frank experimentation they can find one car size that suits the majority of buyers...