Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cadillac will look much like last year's $8,500 Eldorado special model. Grilles are lower and wider-looking; the traditional Caddy taillight fin has been replaced by a thinner, all-metal fin jutting above a cluster of taillights set down near the bumper; and the body has been dropped to reduce overall height another 3 in. to 59 in. on the 60 Special and 62 Sedan. Power: up 15 h.p. to 300 h.p. in the standard engine, up 40 h.p. to 325 h.p. in the special V-8 installed as optional equipment in 1957 Eldorado models...
...view of Tito's return to cozy relations with Moscow. Khrushchev's arrival, dramatizing Tito's ties with the Soviet Union, could have been a deliberate attempt by the Russians to jeopardize these negotiations. Yugoslavs were not slow to point out that Khrushchev, with a bumper Soviet harvest reported this year, was in a position to cover the U.S. wheat offer, probably would like to impose this extra obligation on Tito...
...company "as much as a temperance agency as a profit-making concern," capitalized on anti-liquor sentiment with the slogan: "Get the Welch habit-it's one that won't get you." One of his most successful ads showed a ripe-lipped lass raising a bumper glass of grape juice with the invitation: "The lips that touch Welch's are all that touch mine...
Only eight months ago used-car lots in many sections of the U.S. were packed with unsold cars on which the prices were plummeting. In San Francisco one dealer surveyed his bumper-to-bumper lot and wailed: "This is the first time a customer can buy a one-year-old car at 50% of its cost when new." But by the end of July the whole picture had changed to what the Automotive News called a used-car shortage of "near-drastic proportions." Accordingly, prices were rising...
...bumper crop of golden grain waved last week along Algeria's coastal plain. Rain had been plentiful, there had been hardly a breath of the hot, dry, dreaded sirocco, and the harvest promised to be the best in history. But in many fields the crops-wheat, oats, barley-drooped overripe and unharvested, and in some the grain, and the farm buildings too, were burning in the lazy heat...