Word: flivvered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Ormsbee loves life in the raw. As a youth, his hero tore around in a flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
Wehrmacht officers learned months ago that their swagger Mercedés-Benz staff cars were death traps in occupied Russian territory: guerrilla snipers gave special attention to these chariots of the mighty. In dangerous territory Nazi officers prudently changed to the cramped obscurity of flivver Volkswagen. But Gestapo officials persisted in riding in the style to which they were accustomed...
Globe never built any more, never sold the first one. But the company hired en gineers, designed another: a saucy, low-winged monoplane to sell for $3,000 to catch the civilian flivver-plane market. Globe built two of these, but just when prospects looked good the Government halted all private plane manufacture...
Emmanuel cannot let the AVCO-Vultee-Consolidated setup remain so complicated forever. He plans a full merger of the two planemakers, but it may take months. The result would be a huge concern flexible enough to make anything from flivver planes to transoceanic skyliners, strong and ramified enough not to fear terrific post-war competition. Emmanuel bids fair to become the biggest single figure in U.S. aviation...
...that the British, Dutch and Canadians are investigating it. Until the British began using jeeps in Africa, no foreign army had anything quite like it. But, in war or peace, the jeep appears to have a long future ahead of it as a stouter resurrection of the old flivver. Some agricultural experts expect the jeep to be an invaluable asset to the farmer, and many a soldier is firmly determined to get one after the war, for his personal...