Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-powered, sweptwing, chrome-plated economy gets about the same mileage as Detroit's best. Both need frequent adjustments, which are costly, perhaps because they are products of people who have forgotten what constitutes a day's work...
...cannot say that Harvard's teachers are bigger, better, longer lasting, more glamorous or less irritating than those of our competitors. They don't wear more chrome, have longer fins, provide fewer calories or come equipped with more effective filters...
...CHRYSLERS with quickie retrimming job will be wheeled out this month to combat sales slump. Windsor, Saratoga and New Yorker models will have splashier trim all around, sweeping chrome strips along side and rear panels, plus mascara-like black paint around headlights for "space age effect...
...columns, troweling plaster into place, and punctuating the din of hammering and riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates, judge and compare the nations by what they see before them...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, became one of the deftest interpreters of the International Style initiated by France's Le Corbusier and Germany's Bauhaus school. In recent years he revolted against the monotony of cityscapes composed of acres of glass façades. chrome and exposed steel. Instead. Architect Stone turned to his own great love of classic monuments and deep love of beauty. "In my own case," he says, "I feel the need for richness, exuberance, and pure, unadulterated freshness...