Word: compacter
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...When the compact cars hit the showrooms last fall, Detroit's experts hoped that they might win 15% of the market. Last week the latest figures showed that the auto men had erred on the conservative side. To date, 687,821 compacts have rolled off the lines to capture 24.08% of the market; by the end of this week, the total will...
...still American Motors' Rambler, with almost 30% of compact sales. But Ford's Falcon is coming up fast. In the seven weeks from...
...stepping up production to match orders. The Falcon's appeal is economy. Last week Ford discontinued its 128-h.p. engine, which it had offered as optional equipment to compete with the Corvair and Valiant (TiME, Feb. 1). Ford dealers had found few takers for the souped-up engine; compact buyers want economy, not pickup...
Four on the Line. Compact cars are doing so well that except for Cadillac and Lincoln, just about every auto division will have an entry by October...
...expects France to have much difficulty in progressing into the more advanced arts of nuclear devices. Asked how long it would take the French to convert the Sahara test device into a compact bomb, one U.S. expert said: "They'll do it within months." With plutonium and heavy water already in hand, the French are expected to be able to produce an H-bomb in much less time than it took the U.S. and Russia, both of whom had to spend many months and even years in theoretical studies to determine whether a hydrogen explosion was even feasible...