Word: minis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Motor Corp.'s Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor, two "baby cars" that have 34-h.p., four-cylinder engines mounted laterally and front-wheel drive. Capable of 70 m.p.h. top speed, the new ultra-small cars run 45 miles on a gallon of gas, will sell for about...
...line of ultra small cars will be introduced by British Motor Corp. in the U.S. within six months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...Anaconda has sliced its Chilean production 10%, after cutting its Nevada mine output 16%. Phelps Dodge recently announced a 9% cut at its Arizona properties, representing a cumulative decrease of 22% since October 1956. Two giant foreign producers, the Rhodesian Selection Trust and the Belgian Congo's Union Minière du Haut Katanga have also trimmed operations...
...cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing total of delegation votes, will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose sight of the main convention activity. ¶ Devices...