Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dawn's Early Blight. In Naples, a watchmaker applied for a patent on an alarm clock for stubborn sleepers which, if not turned off after the first normal rings, starts an electronic tape featuring the continuous honking of a car horn, the prolonged barking of a dog, several pistol shots followed by a cannon's boom...
Automobiles. To the Ninth International Congress of Automobile Elegance: "The automobile is one of the happiest fusions between mechanics and art ... A car's elegance must be a symbol of nobility of soul. The coachwork must be subject to the severe laws of aerodynamics. Coach-builders have made use of this subjection to conceive models whose lines adapt themselves to the movement of the eye which follows the vehicle hurtling at top speed along the road...
Every afternoon last week a grey 1951 Chevrolet threaded through the streets on the edge of town, pulled up alongside the field where Stockton (junior) College's red-and-blue-jerseyed Mustangs worked out under the gentling fall sun of California's Central Valley. Out of the car stepped a trim figure in grey slacks and blue windbreaker. Under fluffy, center-parted white hair, his big, broad-browed head was thrust forward, turtle fashion. He looked old as he walked toward the cleat-chewed turf, but he shed his years like a mantle and straightened up smartly...
...dogmas. Gaitskell himself has not caught public fancy. The party has yet to find the proper rocket fuel (o propel it on the second stage to its New Jerusalem. About the only fresh election cry came from Gaitskell. In a land where only one family in three has a car, he won big cheers by offering the campaign slogan: "A car for every British family...
...series by series will be cheaper than Chevrolet or Plymouth," even though "prices will be up somewhat." Since Chevrolet has dropped its lowest-priced Delray line and Plymouth has scrapped its rock-bottom Plaza, the lowest-priced Ford Custom 300 is expected to sell for less than any other car of its two major competitors. Ford will also slash prices of its slow-rolling Edsel by "hundreds of dollars...