Word: modelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aussies, Bas Wie soon found, were all that he had remembered them to be. The Northern Territory Administrator himself gave him a home and sent him to school. In return, Bas Wie worked about the official residence, each Christmas presented the Administrator with an intricately carved ship model he had made himself. When the Administrator was transferred, a Darwin couple adopted Bas Wie, and he got a job as a clerk at the Commonwealth Works Department. There, a year and a half ago, 24-year-old Bas Wie met a pretty young white girl from Perth. After a year-long...
...rate over the first ten days, and last week's production was up 9.6%. Ford Motor Co. returned to full-scale production, while Chrysler Corp. scored a 13% production boost in June. Yet even as the wheels rolled a bit faster, the industry got set for the annual model changeover shutdown. Buick production was stopped last week for approximately six weeks; Chrysler will start shutting down late this month, Plymouth in early August and Ford in September...
...collection of U.S. memorabilia intended to tell a social history of the U.S., ranging from a cigar-store wooden Indian to an early-model Ford, a chipped plaster statue of Washington and a glass showcase of latter-day examples of Western tumbleweeds. Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...
...less revolutionary were De Gaulle's publicly avowed plans to "organize on a federal model" the relationships between France and its overseas possessions. De Gaulle remained carefully vague as to whether or not Algeria would also get "federal" status under his new order. But he was already showing a willingness to make major concessions to restore peace in North Africa. France promised to withdraw all troops within a month from eleven garrison posts scattered through the south and east of Morocco, and seems to be prepared to evacuate all its bases in Tunisia save the great naval installations...
...Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...