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Word: seaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stylist George Walker's $185 million restyling: flashy new grilles, a lower-and longer-looking body, and a bigger, more economical V-8 engine that Ford hopes will cut gasoline bills as much as 15% (TIME, July 8). One major surprise: Ford will discontinue its famed two-seater Thunderbird, replace it with the long-planned four-seater model that is longer (113 in. wheelbase v. 102 in. wheelbase). but just as low and rakish. While the small T-bird has been a big success, with sales of 53,000 cars since 1954 (five times as many as Chevrolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Overture | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...four-seat version of Bavarian Motor Works' two-seater Isetta. The Plexiglas front still opens up to admit the driver and front passenger. The two back passengers enter by a new narrow door in the right rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buy-Eyed Over Bugs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Mopetta, a tiny (only 3 ft. high) one-seater with three wheels, a plastic body, and a motor the size of a cabbage head, which sends it scuttling along at 30 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Buy-Eyed Over Bugs | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...clothes closet or carried in the trunk of the family car, was put on sale by Boston's George D. O'Day Associates, Inc. The boat, built by Fairey Marine Ltd. of Britain, comes with paddles or oars. Prices: $130 for a 7-ft.-4-in. one-seater model, $145 for the 10-ft. two-seater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...truth seemed to be that the Socialists themselves did not quite know. Erich Ollenhauer was flying about Germany in a rented, five-seater yellow Cessna, accompanied by his plump wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Sign of the Sausage | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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