Word: jeepster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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KAISER MOTORS will make only face-lifting changes on its Kaiser, Henry J, Jeepster and Aero...
Tired of Red infiltrators, he fired his cabinet. Leaping into his black Jeepster, supported by a bodyguard of 150 Cambodian stalwarts, he joined his six Cambodian battalions in an attack on a secret Communist stronghold at Angkor Wat. Wearing the uniform of a two-star general, he took personal command of the battle, sent his war elephants crashing through the flooded forest and his soldiers gliding in sampans among forgotten temples. In three days of fighting, he and his men routed the Communists and captured their headquarters. With a new cabinet composed almost entirely of his own relatives, King Norodom...
...bureau in Brazil has been inhabited by one White after another. First there was Bill White, now in TIME'S Washington bureau, who established the White dynasty in Brazil. Next, in April 1950, came Frank White Jr. (no kin to Bill), who used the same office, same yellow jeepster, same office staff, same apartment, and same maid. Finally, at the beginning of this year, Art White (no kin to either) moved into the same background, inherited the same perquisites of office and began hearing the same jokes about men named White that had beleaguered Frank...
...first of the year, Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. expects to bring out a new line of "Aero" passenger cars that will be "very unlike the jeep" or the jeepster. Willys said last week that its three Aero models will be streamlined, with "long, flowing lines and low silhouettes," will have small wheel bases (108 in.) and six-cylinder, go-h.p., high-compression engines which are expected to run up to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. OPS wholesale prices: $1,310, $1,415 and $1.468. If Willys tacks on the standard dealers' markup, Aero retail price will...
Fast travel over South America's great distances is the toughest part of the staff correspondent's job. Said Rio Bureau Chief Frank White a fortnight ago : "We often hold our story conferences in the back of our Jeepster. Everybody sleeps with a map of Brazil, plus assorted airlines timetables, on his night table." Just back from a 7,000-mile trip up the Amazon Valley, White sometimes covers points in northern Brazil that are closer to the United States than to his home...