Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into Wooster, the county seat, drove bearded Amishmen who hitched their buggies near chrome-splashed V-8s, walked heavily beside their black-bonneted wives into the courthouse, where three Amish couples were on trial for contempt. Their offense: after refusing to let their children start the ninth grade, they carted the three teen-agers to an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, defying a court order that they be placed in a children's home and allowed to go to school...
Turkey in 1950 still had something close to a colonial economy. Despite its coal, iron and water power, it remained an industrial pygmy, earned most of its foreign exchange by exporting tobacco, cereals, filberts, raisins, figs and chrome ore. More than 65% of Turkey's 20 million citizens were still illiterate. Four out of five of the nation's 36,000 rural villages had no proper drinking water. More than half of Turkey's 27,000 miles of "highway" were officially listed as "passable by carts during the dry season only." And Turkey's peasants...
...than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military construction will...
...mile subway system was disrupted, its 4,700,000 riders were disoriented. Within two hours the city found itself locked in the biggest, messiest transportation scramble it had ever seen. Commuters flooded to the streets, turning the surface transportation system as well into a cramped, cough-provoking cloud of chrome, curses and exhaust...
Ford's "Cellini of chrome" might better be called the Elvis Presley of the automotive industry. His conception of what the buying public wants is insulting, especially to us women. Certainly we are conscious of style, but within the bounds of good taste and good value. Mr. George Walker's hillbilly notions do not meet these requirements; there is altogether too much emphasis on style and too little on quality and performance. We want to drive the 1958 models, not wear them...