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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holland's first U.S. entry, the DAF 600, a new five-passenger, two-cylinder family car with top speed of 57 m.p.h., 40 miles per gal. gas consumption. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Japan's Toyopet Crown Custom, a four-cylinder, four-door family car with top speed of 80 m.p.h., and 33 miles per gal. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...West Germany's Wesphalia "camping bus," which looks like Volkswagen's utility bus, has beds for two in the back. Price: $2,195. A second German car: the NSU Sport Prinz with seats for four, a two-cylinder engine that gets 55 miles per gal., and a price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...buyer seeking the ultimate in economy, Britain's York Noble Industries Ltd. had a new, fiber-glass-bodied Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Wheels for All | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...solemnly mining gold dug from the earth, only to bury it again at Fort Knox. Government red tape is a fertile field for the common, or garden, variety of stupidity. In Britain a professional man applied for gasoline coupons and got them with the warning that his car could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return to your residence must be made by public transport." In the U.S. during the war, when promising soldiers were sent to colleges for engineering courses, the assignments were made alphabetically. The result: of 300 soldiers arriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: As Vast as Mankind | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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