Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Car. In Petoskey, Mich., Policeman Charles Laubrich paid a $25 fine after he fell asleep at the wheel of a patrol car and crashed into a utility pole...
...healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...
...world. She travels now with a maid, a secretary and 30 pieces of luggage, into which she crams 70 pairs of shoes, 50 dresses and five mink coats. She indulges herself in jewelry-necklaces, fat rings, pearl and diamond earrings-and she plans to buy a big American car...
...have any color car you want," Henry Ford used to say, "so long as it's black." The father of modern mass production not only stuck to a few colors, but turned out more than 15 million model Ts over 19 years with hardly a change. Since then the U.S. has changed, and with it the idea of mass production. Today manufacturers not only change their models frequently, but turn out everything from electric irons to autos in a bewildering variety of models and colors. Many manufacturers are now beginning to wonder whether they are doing the consumer...
...vermouth cum olive -today's drinker must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never produce two identical cars. Westinghouse Electric turns out 63 "basic" models of appliances that can be modified 342 ways. Radio Corp. of America...