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...sleek and streamlined cars that bore little resemblance to the homely soap-box-on-wheels, 149 helmeted youngsters crouched over their steering wheels and rolled earnestly downhill in the eleventh annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby before 65,000 spectators at Akron. Young Donald Strub, 13, rolled the fastest, won a four-year college scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Intensely practical, Loewy likes beauty for its own sake but always combines it with the functional. While styling the Pennsylvania Railroad's sleek new locomotives, Loewy took a long ride in the cab of a locomotive. When he got back, he had one recommendation that led all the rest: he suggested a toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: Wake Up & Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Costa Rican Embassy in Washington one night last week, the telephone rang. Sleek, young (24) First Secretary Alvaro Rossi answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Oh | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...high points-Thunderhead's sensuous, rushing and wheeling courtship dance with the night-sleek Crown Jewel, and the heartbreaking, helpless panic of the two horses when the mare has foundered belly-deep in sucking mud-present unused possibilities of much greater suspense and excitement than the man-made climax of the trotting heats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low, Wide & Hard to Get | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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