Word: runabout
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...Runabout. At Regensburg, Germany, Willy Messerschmitt, who designed Germany's famed fighter planes in World War II, began turning out a three-wheeled, 342 pound automobile on a motor scooter chassis. Only 9½ ft. long, 48 in. wide and 47 in. high, it can do 40 m.p.h., run 75 miles on a gallon of gas. The Kleinwagen has two seats in tandem, no space for baggage. Price: about...
Harvard-and-Oxford-trained, lanky Diplomat Cabot is a member of the famous Boston family. His most publicized diplomatic success occurred in 1930 when, as third secretary in the Dominican Republic, he raced into the hinterland in his Oakland runabout to intercept an advancing revolutionary army and win its leaders to a plan for averting bloody warfare in the island. Rising rapidly thereafter from one Latin American post to another, he acted as chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires in 1946, before moving on to such international hotspots as Belgrade, Shanghai and Helsinki...
...Plasti-Craft's streamlined XL-525, a 14-ft. Fiberglas-reinforced outboard runabout. Made of Owens-Corning Fiberglas and plastic, the hull needs no paint or calking (price: about $575). Other Fiberglas boats on display: Lunn Laminates' 18-ft. sloop, Challenger, Ray Greene & Co.'s 16-ft. sloop, Rebel...
...this kind of financial runabout and procrastination that induced the Hygiene Department to set up an eye clinic in the Hygiene Building in the thirties. Charging moderate fees, scaled according to each student's resources, the clinic was drawing almost 900 patrons annually by 1941. Faculty members and University employees also used the Clinic. The 1941 Hygiene Report said "the rapid growth of the eye clinic is an indication that it is needed and appreciated...
...whether the U.S. will take to Vespas, no one knows. But Piaggio sees a big market as a substitute for a "second car," college student's runabout, low-cost rival of the motorcycle, or as an exciting new toy for hot-rodders...