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Word: panhard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles to the gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Like Old Times | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Salesman at Work | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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