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...parade, Buick tricked up is convertible with a new body, the Skylark; Cadillac brought out its El Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...
...Cadillac has a new sports convertible, the six-passenger El Dorado which, at $7,500, is the U.S.'s highest-priced mass-production car. It has a "wraparound" windshield that sweeps to the sides, wire wheels, and an Orion top that folds back under a steel cover. Cadillac's regular 1953 line has a wider, more massive hood and headlight visors that lengthen the fender line; prices are the same as in 1952 ($3,571 to $5,620). Optional: air conditioning, wire wheels or wire-wheel hubcaps, power steering, and an "autronic eye" control that dims headlights automatically...
...Gold-Dust Bowl. In that province last week, above the ocean flatness of North Dakota's wheat and cattle plains, flaming gas flares from 69 Amerada wells stabbed the night sky. The land that had been a dust bowl only 20 years ago was now an El Dorado to many farmers who had been on relief or working for WPA. Overnight, they had become wealthy. Last week the big opportunity had come for Farmer Lewis M. Osborn...
Missionaries & Soldiers. Spanish conquistadors thought they would find there the fabulous El Dorado. Jesuit missionaries took the word of God as far upriver as Esmeralda. In 1800, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt took an expedition farther than any scientist before him, and the world of botany was enriched with more than 6,000 species of new plants. Humboldt also discovered a link between the water systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon...
Weld 18--John H. Carnahan (Texarkana, Texas); Weld 37--Norman M. Rehg. Jr. (El Dorado, Kansas); Wiggles-worth A-22--D. Broward Craig (New York City); Wigglesworth E-12--Paul C. Shafer (Ravenna, Ohio); Wigglesworth I-22--Robert B. Ross (Jacksonville, Florida); and Wigglesworth K-22--Howard R. Flock (Philadelphia...