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Word: sedans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like UT-2. His YAK fighter series was rated by French pilots as the best short-range interceptors of World War II. A daredevil and woman-chaser, he likes to drive fast, test his own planes, has had so many narrow escapes that Stalin gave him a Zis (Packard) sedan and restraining motorcycle escort. Now working on advanced rocket (YAK-21) and swept-wing jet (YAK-25) interceptors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RUSSIA'S TOP AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...Brewer and his fearful wife obeyed. But nothing happened-Irwin just sat down too. The girl wobbled to the davenport, and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning all three were still sitting motionless in the same chairs. Irwin hustled her into the Brewer's Oldsmobile sedan and drove off. He pulled up at a rural cornfield, raped her again, taped one of his wrists to hers and slept for an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Crime | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

Open Invitation. In Spokane, shortly before Sandifur Motors advertised a 1951 Hudson sedan as "a steal at $2,675," someone stole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 25, 1951 | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Rear View. William B. MacDonald Jr. of Chicago's Mid-States Corp. (house trailers) had a 12½-in. TV set built into his 1951 Cadillac sedan.* The viewing tube is fixed at a 45-degree angle on the rear floor of the car, the antenna protrudes from the trunk. Cost of the set plus installation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 9, 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

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