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Word: citroen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were only half as fast. During the war its engineers designed a postwar line of advanced electronic computers, the first of which, the Gamma 3, appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Bull Market | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...mood thus restored, the trouble spots got engulfed in the pageantry. The two statesmen rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mission Accomplished | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Paris' Rue Oudinot, his movements are signaled ahead by a succession of handclaps; at the ministry entrance and on surrounding street corners, men armed with submachine guns spring to the alert. "Just like a Chicago gangster, eh?" he grinned to a visitor last week, pointing to his armored Citroen with its bulletproof windows. "You won't mind if someone takes a potshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Visionary | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...influence exercised over his wife by her old friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, a steel-eyed physician with a psychiatric practice among society women. In June of 1957, while motoring with Dominique and Dr. Lacour, Walter stopped his car on the road, stepped out and was knocked down by a Citroen. By the time he reached a hospital, with Dr. Lacour giving first aid, he was dead of a skull fracture. Walter left a fortune estimated at $142.5 million. His heir was Dominique, who immediately appointed her brother, Jean Lacaze, as administrator of the great Zellidja enterprises in Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...medium-priced ($1,445 to $1,968) sedans in 144 model and color combinations. Renault, which has sold 1,000,000 baby cars in the last ten years, is moving into the sports-car class with a snappy two-seater called the Floride at $2,023. And everyone from Citroen to Britain's Austin is jumping into the station-wagon market with low-priced cars that combine the features of conventional sedans long popular with Europe's buyers with the roominess of businesslike carryalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Day of the Babies | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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