Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the planemakers likely to play big roles in the reborn industry: ¶Fighter Designer Willy Messerschmitt, who has kept busy repairing U.S. Army trucks, making midget cars (TIME, Sept. 19) and sewing machines while running an aircraft-designing bureau in Spain, is readying his Augsburg plant (sewing machines) for plane production. He has several planes on his drawing board, including a four-engined cargo carrier, hopes within a year to be employing 2,500 in aircraft alone v. 2,100 in all his ventures...
...Bomber Builder Claudine Dornier, whose plants employed over 15,000 in 1944, has also been making midget cars while he stayed airborne with a design company in Spain. It has designed and built prototypes of the Do 27, a light observation plane for the Spanish government. In about a year, Dornier plans to start producing the Do 27 in Germany for the private plane market...
...Ernst Heinkel, who had lost all but one of his plants when the war ended, has been turning out small motors, midget cars. He has started hiring back some of his old designing staff, including Siegfried ("Dixi") Gunther, who designed the dread He 110 twin-engined fighter-bomber...
...until 10, speculating with her friends as to whether the gentleman in question has two heads (Radcliffe is pessimistic, generally). Leaving with a parting word as "see you in an hour," she will whisk her blind date out of the dorm, taking him to some obscure restaurant like the Midget...
...Kabinenroller, built by famed Airplane Designer Willy Messerschmitt, is the first of a new class of West German midget cars to go on sale in the U.S. The midgets, which make even the little Volkswagen look like a Cadillac by comparison, were born of German auto taxes, including a stiff purchase tax, an annual levy of about $3.42 per 100 cc. of engine displacement, plus compulsory liability insurance costing anywhere from $11.87 a year to $106.87, depending on horsepower. Thus, a Volkswagen's yearly tax and insurance cost is $76, about as much as the average West German earns...