Word: rambler
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...race of the big-car makers to bring out a smaller, cheaper car, Nash this week became the first to hit the market. It unveiled the Rambler, * a small (100-inch wheelbase), trim, five-passenger convertible with an 82-h.p. motor. Most notable feature: the top does not fold down but slides down through heavy steel side-rails like the top of a rolltop desk. The price: $1,808, including radio, heater and air-conditioner, about $300 less than the bigger Ford and Chevrolet convertibles with similar equipment...
Before long, Nash hopes to have Rambler sedans ready to sell, probably in the $1,100 range. Nash is spending $5,000,000 to expand its Kenosha, Wis. . plant to build bodies for the new cars, has already produced enough convertibles to stock its dealers. It has not yet made up its mind whether it will make the N.X.I. (TIME, Jan. 16), a still smaller and cheaper car that it paraded around the U.S. last winter to see if there was a market...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...
...more money than myself; and that, though she had not had a relation hanged, she had 50 who deserved hanging." The Johnsons settled in London, were happy when they could see "three dinners ahead." Young Johnson wrote poems, blurbs, biographical notes, prize contests, a weekly column ("The Rambler") for the Gentleman's Magazine. He also became one of Britain's first Parliamentary reporters. Lazy and arrogant, he soon began composing Honorable Members' speeches entirely out of his own head ? taking cars "that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it." When a friend exclaimed that Prime Minister...
...extra hours that could be spent touring the vineyard. But for the salt-water cruise addict the longer ocean trip is well worth while. Nantucket, like the Vineyard, has escaped the commercialization which has ruined so many other vacation resorts. Here you will find gray-shingled cottages covered with rambler roses, cobble stoned streets, and century-old houses with "widder's walks," where Nantucket wives once climbed to look for the return of the old whaling ships...