Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to rouse Colorado's citizenry. Nobody contradicted her facts; she had nothing to fight but inertia. By last week she had won the warm support of Denver newspapers, P.T.A.s and chambers of commerce, had nailed health planks into both Democratic and Republican party platforms, had five model health bills for the upcoming session of the legislature (including one to take health administration from the governor's control), had badgered Denver's Mayor Benjamin Stapleton into a promise to "consider" a city health survey. Said a Denver health official last week: "Hot damn-that woman is wonderful...
...except for such items as bicycles, trains and erector sets which will still be short, U.S. moppets will have almost everything. Items: streamlined baby strollers; aluminum jeeps and station wagons; helicopters; stuffed spaniels that glow in the dark; toy sinks with running water; model kits to make prefabricated houses; dump trucks; and an electrical gun that throws pictures on the wall with each pull of the trigger. For the first time in six years, Germany will ship some $250,000 worth of music boxes, harmonicas, mohair deers, whiz-bang racing cars...
Whistle Round the Bend. Makers of toy trains expect to satisfy only one-half of the tremendous demand. Model railroads have lighter (plastic) and longer trains, remote-control electronic systems that switch and disconnect cars, station masters that announce arrivals, electronically operated cranes, locomotives that whistle, chuff, and trail real smoke...
...general consensus of date-takers among those guardians of antiquity seems to be that, "Girls love it." One dour model T man was heard to remark traitorously, however, "The engine makes so much noise, a woman's hearse before she gets home...
...chief trouble of owning the thing, says Tom Morse who pumps the gear pedals of what is probably the oldest auto at the University, is that everyone from traffic police to filling station attendants stops to tell you about the model T he once owned. "I can get up to 45 miles an hour," he declares, but adds that the rattles and hazards seem to increase cubicly with the speed...