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Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
Closer to the heart, the new 1952 motorcars were being unveiled in a thousand showrooms across the land. Thoughts of steel shortages and skyrocketing prices went glimmering in the dazzle of chrome and the razzle of the "jet scoop hood," the "Quadri-Jet carburetor" and that glassy monument to planned frustration, the hardtop convertible. "It's loaded, so be careful," pleaded the Cadillac ads. "There's more power in that dynamic engine than you'll ever need-except for the rarest emergency...
Many a once-tight raw material was becoming plentiful. This week NPA decided there was enough chrome stainless steel to drop priorities on it, also planned to end similar controls on five other products...
...exhibit. Moholy-Nagy was primarily a great teacher, but his work in developing new types of photography is also outstanding. On display are some of his photograms, plates exposed without the aid of a camera. There are also vivid geometric abstractions in water color, and a construction in chrome and lucite. Another of Moholy-Nagy's innovations is a seeming monstrosity called a light machine. It is used to project abstract light images on a screen for the benefit of abstract motion pictures...
Almost every day this month, moving vans from Frankfurt-am-Main have lumbered into Bonn. Behind them trailed the chrome-grinning cars of U.S. occupation families, loaded with children, cats and dogs, Bavarian cuckoo clocks. Some 1,000 U.S. occupation employees and dependents attached to the Office of U.S. High Commissioner for Germany-HICOG for short-have moved to the capital. In overcrowded Bonn, they will jostle beside burgeoning French and British communities...