Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame in the rear. Price of the '49 Ford: $1,163 and up, f.o.b. Detroit, an average increase...
...sprayed over canvas. They had come through in good shape. But artillerymen still have their troubles. Braking spades on gun carriages snap off on the first recoil; in extreme cold some explosives become unstable and are either dangerous to handle or hard to fire. Americans and Canadians, working in parallel experiments, are still trying to figure the best way to keep engine oils fluid...
...Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Said Dr. Kimm: "I've come back feeling very much encouraged ..." Mr. Kim still feared that U.N.-sponsored elections in South Korea would split the country permanently at the 38th parallel, but he said: "We promise not to encourage strife...
Hitler moved into Czechoslovakia unopposed-Stalin has now done the same. Our failure to read Mein Kampf cost us dearly. Our failure to see its present-day parallel may be even costlier...