Word: modell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quantity is short, quality is a lot better. There would not be much of the junk that cluttered up counters during the war. Some of the newer gadgets are precision jobs. Samples: a dump truck with a hydraulic lift; a scale model of a concrete mixer that pours real cement out of a hand-operated drain...
Germany has sent over some sleek hand-sized cars, some with gear shifts and brakes, and others with remote-control steering. But they are scarce; foreign toy imports so far this year have been less than $1,000,000. Trickiest U.S. model: an aluminum racer that runs more than 15 m.p.h. on compressed...
Gold-Plated Greetings. As a publicity stunt, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. sent a gold-and-silver-plated duplicate of its one-millionth production unit to the Vatican as a present for Pope Pius XII. The Edison Institute at Dearborn, Mich. fared even better; it got the actual model-entirely goldplated...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...
...outfit, a jacket with pencil-slim skirt by M-G-M Designer Irene, was so tight that the hobbled model could not walk down the stairs in it. A complicated "Toga for Travel," by Bonnie Cashin, consisted of a black dress under an enormous brown knee-length cape, set off by a matching sun helmet and candy-striped spats. Another cold weather number was a white fleece overcoat, by Elois Jenssen, electrically heated by batteries carried in two side pockets (with an extension cord that could be plugged in on planes or trains...