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Word: coots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footed clapper rails, Eskimo curlew, Puerto Rican parrot, American ivory-billed woodpecker and Northern and Southern red-cock-aded woodpeckers, Laysan and Nihoa finches, Bachman's and Kirtland's warblers, dusky seaside and Cape Sable sparrows, and Hawaii's duck, goose, hawk, stilt, crow, gallinule and coot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Escape from Extinction | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Coot sales were 1,800 last year and are expected to double this year - hardly enough to worry executives at Ford or Chevy. But the $1,595 Coot is the van guard of a new kind of car, the "off-the-road vehicle." At least 14 other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

Traction & Twist. The Coot was designed in 1964 by Carl Enos Jr., then an 18-year-old mechanic, as a utility vehicle for ranches. The car carries four passengers or 1,000 lbs. at 25 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

body, keep it afloat like a boat. They are connected by a jointed shaft that per mits the Coot to flex with the terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...months ago, Founder Enos and his partner, Robert Mauser, sold Coot, Inc. for just over $1,000,000 to Randtron, a new manufacturing conglomerate headquartered near San Francisco; Mauser and Enos stay on as president and vice president of the subsidiary. With 254 dealers throughout the U.S., and volume projected at $5,500,000, the company should show its first profit this year. "Off-the-road vehicles," says Mauser, "serve the purpose for which people used to keep horses: to be able to go off alone where automobiles cannot go. But you can keep the Coot in the garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Hill-and-Gully Riders | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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