Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand for the Soviet Union's three "National Days" at the Brussels World's Fair, small, smooth President Kliment E. Voroshilov reeled out a party line of chatter while moving in and out of pavilions. Coming model-boyishly away from a U.S.-style voting machine, he said, "I voted for peace." Remotely controlled mechanical hands that struck a match were "symbolic," for "one day an inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov...
While the model kitchen evoked a unanimous "so convenient," the many-storied parking garages, the interlocking multitiered roadways, the sheer number of cars on the roads caused the greatest awe. Visitors stood openmouthed in front of a photo that showed cars parked on a rooftop, bewildered about how they got there. Some also wondered whether Americans had thought of any practical alternative to riding elevators up in skyscrapers, because the ride must surely make a lot of people...
...sprawling U.S. Steel, it marked quite a comeback. The corporation had long been a textbook model of corporate disorganization and technological backwardness. As a result, its share of the nation's steel production plunged from 65% in 1901 to 29% today. But in recent years U.S. Steel's plants and personnel have undergone a major, largely unnoticed revolution of modernization...
...Detroit automakers reversed longstanding policies last week hoping to speed sales during the 1959 model year...
...Buick, its production of '58s halted at 242,000, v. 400,000 in the '57 model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...