Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngsters interpretations of a paradise are included four separate plans, which call for everything from racetracks, night clubs, chromium and glass hotels, movie palaces, and swimming pools to "a little fishing by the natives to give the place local color...
...right. But we'd like to see the CRIMSON editor bring his find down here to the real pot-still and moonshine country. Amateur distillers here-abouts are polite, but they'd probably have a hard time staying so when they inspected the dainty jars and chromium pipes that constitute a collegian's still...
...automobile of the early 'thirties will have twice as many switches, dials, levers, and other playthings as a modern car. In addition, on the better cars the instruments have not been slicked over into a scheme of Chromium plated vulgarity. They look like instruments. They are scaled off in standard units. Their readings mean something...
Closely allied to these collectors are those who prefer the more functional design of older cars to the over decorated, "streamlined" types that have become more common in later years. Those who like simple lines and no chromium plated garbage have a hard time finding a new car with a design they can admire...
...drive from Manhattan to Miami gave Columnist Robert C. Ruark meat for an ulcerous attack on roadside restaurants. If you spot one that has "a neon light out front, a mess of chromium inside, and an easily evident juke box," he wrote, "what you get to eat would poison an ostrich . . . They will take a perfectly good horse-burger out of the freezer, and it comes to the customer, after subjection to the stove, a deep shade of grey and curled at the edges . . . There is no law which says that a roll or a piece of bread must...