Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leak out. A really "super" bomb existed only in the minds and notebooks of atomic idealists. It was theoretically possible, but exceedingly difficult to construct. The best the bomb-fanciers could do for the present, they thought, would be to step up the destructive power of the Nagasaki-type (Model-T) bomb about one hundred times...
Married. Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 26, whom newspaper gossips once nominated for Prince Consort of Britain; and Anne Cumming Bell, 21, Mayfair model daughter of a Yorkshire Army major; both for the first time; in London...
...girl is, of course, Chili Williams, former Conover model, polkadotted pin-up, and current object of Harvard publicity men's attention, and the play is called "Bigger Than Barnum." It is not a good play, and it will not go to New York...
...only talkative contestant in the race to produce a cheaper car was James D. Mooney, bouncing, bustling president of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. His plans: a six-cylinder model weighing only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
Unperturbed, Gimbels this week ordered another 100,000 pens of a new model not afflicted with embolism. And Reynolds has bought a "practically" new factory in Chicago which will help turn out 30,000 "miraculous" pens a day. But from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded. Penman Reynolds wrote his own ticket by tapping the rich postwar market first. Next month he will run into his first stiff competition. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, who do 10-15% of the U.S. pen-&-pencil business, will put on sale their own ball-point...