Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newshawk squads hounded the Household Board just as relentlessly. In self-defense, board members invented a special code to use over the telephone, gave false addresses to taxi drivers to confuse reporters. "I myself." says Board Director Takeshi Usami. "have been forced into such subterfuges as abandoning my own car and using streetcars, and then getting off the streetcar to walk, just in order to throw the press off my trail...
Lusty Child. But 1958's radio is not 1947's radio. The radio set is no longer in the living room but in the kitchen, on a bedside table, in the car. 1958's audience listens with half an ear, usually while doing something else...
Behind the locked and guarded doors of Detroit's experimental studios last week, the automobile industry's planners were hard at work on the kind of car they hope will sell in the years from 1961 on. As expected, the styling will be radically different. But the big news about the car of the future is not so much what it will look like, but what it will be made of. The material: aluminum. After years of experiments, the industry is finally starting to roll with the new metal-with General Motors out ahead, Ford and Chrysler following...
...would protect himself, as he had always done when Radcliffe freshmen, wild with prep school passion, stormed his sports car to win his favor. Ever haughty, ever proud, Vag had constructed a wall between the world and himself. All that was inane, boorish, and crude was forever shut off from...
...eyed dismay of a vanishing aristocrat who had chanced to the building in high hopes of a little wit and bourbon). She was just in time to avoid a pack of Summer School girls prowling the walk in search of males. "Mouse-trap," "parietal rules," and "sports car" drifted back from their grim and whispered ruminations...