Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chevrolet this week brought out a new model of its Corvette in an attempt to overtake Ford's Thunderbird, which outdistanced all competitors with 16,000 units in 1955. The 1956 Corvette still sports a plastic body, but boosted horsepower 15% to 225 h.p. Optional: a power-operated top and a floor-mounted manual shift (instead of Powerglide...
...Angeles, policemen closed in on Richard Sauer in the Citizens National Bank, caught him with a note demanding "all your fives and tens," hauled him off to jail after confiscating his toy badge and his plastic pistol labeled "Dragnet...
...color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans have seized on its highly plastic quality to fashion shell-like vaulting, bold cantilevers, curving façades that give high sculptural qualities to their best buildings...
...business. Marx constantly analyzes machine layouts to cut wasteful operations. "When we find a machine that will do a 30-second job in 25," he says, "we'll scrap the old one, even if it's new." Marx was one of the first U.S. toymakers to switch to plastic. Though the first plastic toys broke too easily, he now makes most small toys of polyethylene, a durable material that can be turned out up to 64 times faster than metal. Unlike most toy manufacturers, who virtually close down for six months when the Christmas lights go off, Marx sells...
Last week, as Citroën displayed a radically new model in its showrooms, it made France's biggest auto news in years. Nicknamed the "Goddess," it has a long, duckbilled front reminiscent of the 1953 Studebaker, a plastic roof and half a dozen mechanical improvements, e.g., hydropneumatic suspension to keep the car on a constant level. The four-cylinder, 75-h.p. engine does 25 miles to the gallon and can get the Goddess up to 87 m.p.h...