Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than last month. These increases encouraged dealers to hope that the bad winter weather was as responsible for poor sales as all the complaints about Detroit's 1958 cars. One all-inclusive gripe, from Economist Slichter, who drives a 1951 Ford and recently refused to buy a 1958 model: "They are inconveniently long, inconveniently wide, inconveniently low, wasteful of gas, expensive to maintain, clumsy and ugly...
...market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...
Three for One. For a starter in 1956, Hanna quietly began to buy D'el Rey stock, then selling at $2.80 per share, bought 12% of the company. Then it discovered that it had competition. German-born Manhattan Investment Banker Leo Model, partner in Model, Roland & Stone and a man who had made (and lost to the Nazis) several fortunes, was also interested, bought in until he had 10% of D'el Rey's stock. When a third group-led by the small Manhattan brokerage firm of Osborne & Thurlow-started bidding and pushed...
Home builders and owners have long dreamed of a cheap and practical heat pump to maintain comfortable temperatures in homes both winter and summer. This week the dream was a big step closer to reality. General Electric Co. unveiled a new, three-ton model of its Weathertron heat pump specifically designed for the mass home-building market. The new G.E. pump will heat or cool a seven-room house in temperatures ranging from -20° to 120°. Cost: about $2,000, including installation...
Phillips Brooks House is the largest of the University's extra-curricular organizations. Its contributions have been enormous, and largely due to its moral aura it is often looked to as a model undergraduate organization. Since the war, the officers have been elected by the full membership. This system is now to be reversed in favor of the pre-war Cabinet domination...