Word: compartmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOLDAWAY SPARE TIRE, almost small enough to fit in glove compartment, will be brought out by Gates Rubber Co. Tire, which will last 1,000 miles, works like inner tube. After pulling flat tire from wheel, motorist loops Gates tire around rim, inflates it with carbon dioxide gas bottle in...
The first price rise for 1957 model cars was announced by Ford, the week before it was scheduled to show its new line to the public. Average increase: some $70 a car, or just about enough to cover costs of materials and labor. Ford's action was the tipoff...
Lost in the Jungle. By the time the patrol train returned with doctors and reinforcements, the Prome Express was a smoldering sepulcher for some 100 dead. Its only living passengers were 30 wounded, who lay close to death, and the still unharmed guards in the rear compartment. As doctors worked...
Someone Aboard. At last the signal came. "Hey," said Lieut. Polyak loudly, "there's Gyor." Some of the passengers turned in their seats to peer out of the windows. According to a prearranged plan, the six wrench carriers began to count silently and slowly to 300 in order to...
As Lieut. Polyak worked with his wrench to open the door of the pilot's compartment, the outer knob of which had been removed (an ordinary flying precaution in Communist countries), the pilot himself threw the ship into a series of violent maneuvers, sudden power dives, steep climbing turns...