Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearby hung a model showing how the finished beaver case would look, with trees and leaves merging imperceptibly into the painted background...
Said Szabad Nep: "A Communist is a Communist not only in the party but in his home life. He must ... be a model husband, wife, father or mother who cares for his children and educates them to become faithful members of the working class." One particularly important duty of the model father or mother: rejection of the "bourgeois slogan" of free love...
...Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long Island. The Levitt boys knock a new house together every 16 minutes, adorn their latest model with such creature comforts as fireplaces as well as modern touches, e.g., picture windows and movable walls that double as closets...
After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...
Other TV manufacturers were not standing still. To snag the high-price trade, Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. last week brought out a console model with a 19-in. tube (the biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that...