Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which need 48 different materials from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends on the outside world for 100% of its tin, mica, asbestos and chrome, for 99% of its nickel, 95% of its manganese, 93% of its cobalt, 67% of its wool, 65% of its bauxite, 55% of its lead, 42% of its copper...
...showrooms around the U.S., Ford this week will show off its 1955 entries in the race for first place in the auto industry. The new Fords are lower and longer-looking, with a V-shaped chrome strip on the sides, visored headlights, wrap-around windshields and sporty, latticework grilles. To keep up with Chevrolet's new V-8 engine, Ford has boosted its own V-8's horsepower from 130 to 162, with optional carburetors and dual exhausts to push it to 182. All cars will come equipped with tubeless tires. The new paint combinations are dazzling...
When Chrysler Corp. went through its last big model change two years ago, the company thought it had its finger firmly on the public pulse. Corporation surveys showed that customers wanted shorter, easier-to-maneuver cars with less chrome and plenty of interior height so nobody mashed his hat. The result: Chrysler sales plummeted nearly 50% as the great U.S. car buyer turned to the longest, slinkiest cars he could find. Last week, taking no chances on 1955, Chrysler President Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert showed newsmen a 1955 line that is as long and low as anything on the road...
Fronia plunged into publishing with her usual gusto, dividing her time between bank and paper. She brightened up Ironton's Center Street by converting one of her buildings into a Courier plant, with a shiny new chrome-and-glass façade. Circulation of the paper grew to 7,576, not far behind its afternoon rival, the 28-year-old Ironton Tribune (circ. 9,280). But Publisher Sexton proved to be an erratic newswoman. She ran through a series of editors, handed down unpredictable edicts that made the Courier an erratic paper, e.g., no local news on Page...
...Monsters Gog (Ivan Tors; United Artists) is a tidy, legless little robot with five arms, a beer-barrel belly, and a head like a chrome-plated grapefruit with a gleaming red aerial on top. Gog is married-or something-to another robot named Magog, and they both work in a highly secret space-research institute, hidden somewhere underneath the great American desert, which Herbert Marshall runs for the Government...