Word: compartmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plymouth boasts an optional, Imperial-like spare-tire compartment on the sloping rear deck. Dealers expect that one new feature will sell well to women and oldsters: swivel front seats that make it simpler to get in and out. Chicago's Fohrman Motors has had 100 nibbles from potential...
The coming jet age will also bring a new safety problem: the possibility of failure of plane pressurization at high altitudes. As a safeguard, the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled last week that all jetliners flying above 25,000 ft. (and almost all jets will) must carry oxygen masks for all...
¶ Sommer's bunker-where, according to former SS Judge Konrad Morgen, Sommer kept a secret compartment, concealed in the floor under his desk, to hide torture instruments and the needles with which he shot carbolic acid and air into his victims' veins. Sommer often laid the bodies...
Trick Cooler. Westinghouse Electric showed off a baby-bottle cooler-warmer that refrigerates a bottle until just before feeding time, then quickly heats it and rings a bell when it is ready. Due on the market within a year, the bottle cooler is a forerunner of other household applications, e.g...
Labor has its incentive systems, its ruby-studded 25-year pins, its bowling leagues, ad infinitum, but no pride of workmanship. My blood boils every time I drive to the auto dealer and am questioned: "What's wrong with it?" If I don't know, they don'...