Word: cued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aims to sew up the lead in 1958. It will be even flashier, with a startling new grille, dual headlights and enormous taillights running horizontally across the rear end of the car. To compete with Chevy's new engine, Ford will bring out a bigger (332 cu. in.) V-8 for its Fairlane series. Another big change: Ford's 1958 Thunderbird will jump into the family-car class with a new 113-in.-wheelbase model that has a back seat...
MERCURY will be toned down for a more subdued appearance, will get a bigger (383 cu. in.) engine and a new prestige model called the Olympian with a 125-in. wheelbase v. 122 for standard Monterey and Montclair lines...
...does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged and powerful machines are slashing through the hill, cutting a 360-ft.-deep, 2,200-ft.-long scar -the biggest man-made road gash since the Panama Canal. All told, the machines will move 8,500,000 cu. yd. of earth, enough to cover Manhattan Island with a 4.5-in. layer...
...contracts, in which a penny's difference in the cost of moving a yard of dirt can be the margin between profit and loss, road builders must use all the machines - roughly $1 worth of equipment for every dollar's worth of earth moved (about 3 cu. yd. at current costs). On modern highways an average of a million cu. yd. a mile is moved...
...balloon rose almost vertically, swelling toward its full 2,000,000 cu. ft. as the pressure diminished. Kittinger kept reading over the radio an endless succession of instruments, stealing a glance once in a while through one of the six portholes. The sky was turning a darker blue, and Minnesota below him was fading to a featureless grey...