Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
President Colbert (pronounced Cahl-bert) hustled everywhere, greeting swarms of acquaintances with rarely a slip on a first name, meeting new ones with a hearty handshake. When dinnertime came, he held a chrome tray overhead like a gong, whacked it with a spoon, and led the parade of guests to the dining room...
...headquarters, Silverthorne rented a shabby, $100-a-month building, then sublet half of it. "Hell," snorted Joe, "I don't need a chrome-plated office. I was fetched up on salt-rising bread and black-eyed peas." He parked his planes in the open, repaired them in Honduran air force shops. Since TACA and SAHSA already had radio range and weather stations, Joe saw no reason to duplicate them. "I just turn on the radio and listen to their weather reports," he says blandly...
...door, six carnation-wearing salesmen handed out free chances on a television set, plus a crisp sales chat--Smarter, Safer, Greater in Value, one-third down and 15 months to pay, and look at that chrome. As Pesky and Harris and the salesmen moved among the crowd wearing neat name-plates and dispensing raffle tickets the affair took on the conviviality of a bargain basement. And bargains there were, judging from numerous dark nods toward Porter Square's used car lot across the street. When trading closed for the day, only one of the new cars remained unsold and there...
...price rises and sudden shortages of materials made plain that the armament load would hit civilian production much harder than expected when the arms actually began to roll out in the next six months. (Nickel was already so short that some automakers were talking about going back to painted "chrome work" as in early World War II days...