Word: headroom
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...changes are usually moderate. Cars will probably get no bigger, but they will get slightly lower and have more glass all around. By using smaller wheels and dropping the hood line, designers expect to turn out cars that look lower than present models, but actually will have the same headroom. To enable a motorist to get into a low car without bumping his head on the top, at least one automaker next year will curve the door panels into the roof. Automakers will rely even more heavily on two-and three-tone color combinations to accentuate body lines...
Neither of the two new issues will be sold for cash, since selling securities increases the federal debt, and the debt total is now bumping the $275 billion ceiling. But the Treasury is considering a new 30-year bond issue for cash as soon as it gets headroom by redeeming corporate tax certificates in March...
Humphrey hedged his predictions to cover unforeseen changes in the national or international situation. He warned, too, that congressional refusal to raise the $275 billion national debt limit (TIME, Aug. 10) left the Treasury "too little headroom for safety." (Last week the national debt stood at $273 billion.) But, barring emergencies, he thought the Administration could squeak through until January without calling Congress to raise the debt limit. And he had high hopes that income and outgo would finally balance by the time fiscal 1955 begins next July...
...outside the cars were changed, too. On all models, last year's boxy body has been rounded, window space has been increased, as has headroom and seat room, although the overall length of some models has been slightly cut. The De Soto has a more powerful 116-h.p. engine (v. 112-h.p. last year). Dodge and Plymouth have heavier grilles and bumpers. All interiors have new fabrics-and design...
...four of its cars, Chrysler had increased headroom, seat width and wheel-bases, while lowering the roofs, cutting overall width and bumper-to-bumper length. Compared with most postwar cars, body lines were conservative. There were two brand-new models: Plymouth's Suburban, a metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...