Word: roomier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widening bodies to the fender line had made the cars roomier, but had also made the whole automobile, including doors, more susceptible to traffic damage. Parking-lot operators complained that they could store only two postwar cars where three earlier models had stood...
Watson said that the House Masters had been left to their own discretion in meeting or exceeding the quota. Some in the roomier Houses where commitments had already been made, were not making any changes in order to be fair to all of the men involved...
Thanks to Antonio, the Costas may soon be able to move to roomier quarters. Meanwhile the hubbub has become too much for Papa Costa, a glass worker. Recently Papa took to disappearing mysteriously. One night Mama Costa blindfolded Antonio and pressed the rivet on his neck. "Where's Papa?" she asked sternly. Antonio caressed his father's photograph for a moment. "In front of a table covered with green cloth," he answered. "He's holding a jack of hearts, a seven of clubs and an ace of spades...
Well aware that streamliner speed would appeal to the railroads' customers, light-train builders like Budd and Pullman cannily concentrated their major sales appeal on coach-passenger comforts. To get average travelers out of automobiles and buses, they made roomier cars (50 seats instead of 80), softened upholstery, improved lighting, prettied washrooms and advocated stewardesses, an idea which the airlines had already exploited. The record of Santa Fe's El Capitans proved that this was good salesmanship: first full month of their operation (March 1938) they turned in a revenue of $38,000; four months later...