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Word: compartmentation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Car Cooler. General Motors announced an automobile air-conditioning unit as optional equipment for 1953 Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. The small unit will be installed in the luggage compartment, pump cold air into the car through a grill behind the rear seat. In temperatures up to 110°, said G.M., the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

June 20, on a train speeding from Alexandria to Cairo, Foreign Minister Abdel-Khalek Hassouna Pasha entered Premier Hilaly's compartment with disquieting news: an important ex-government official and crony of King Farouk, acting for the powerful Wafd Party, had called on U.S. Ambassador Caffery and offered to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: What Happened to Hilaly | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Quietly her 1,700-man crew, to whom Korea's war at sea has become a businesslike and boring routine of daily shelling, went to general quarters. Earsplitting salvos reverberated all morning and afternoon as the Saint Paul's 5-and 8-in. guns plastered Communist shore installations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Death on the Saint Paul | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

As often happens in whodunits, the plot gets derailed at its destination. But on the way the picture rattles along at an exciting express clip. The movie plays fresh variations on a familiar theme in a lean scenario, pungent performances and inventive direction: a gangster car pacing the train is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture? | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

Cold Outside. Near Alice, N. D., after his creamery truck stalled in a blizzard, Ray Gillette comfortably sat out the 29°-below-zero storm in the insulated refrigerator compartment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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