Word: sleeked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 20 months ago, a sleek new Comet jet-powered transport plane, the pride of the British Overseas Airways, took off from London Airport to inaugurate a new era of travel in which men could hurry about their business on the globe's shrinking surface at speeds close to eight miles a minute. One day last week, the same plane took off from Rome on the last leg of the now routine jet flight from Singapore to London. Aboard were 35 passengers and crewmen, including Australia's able historian of World War II, Chester Wilmot (The Struggle...
...Sleek and low (60½ in.), Buick's Century is designed to sell in the $2,300 price range between the Special and the Super (without such equipment as radio & heater). It is built on the Special's wheelbase (122 in.), but under the hood it has the same 200-h.p. engine as the Roadmaster. It will be available as a station wagon, two-door Riviera and four-door sedan...
...other New Zealanders were pleased and surprised last week at the easy informality of the visitor who is not only Britain's Queen but their own. From the first moment of their welcome in Auckland harbor, when New Zealand yachtsmen by the hundreds braved a spanking breeze in sleek sloops and smart knockabouts to guide their liner Gothic to its berth, Elizabeth and her husband Philip radiated warmth and friendliness. They cut security measures to a minimum so that their subjects could see them close at hand. They went out of their way to arrange a call...
...Ford Motor Co. showed off its 1954 Mercury this week and gave the rest of the medium-priced field something to shoot at: a sleek new hardtop model named the Sun Valley. The top over the front seat is made of clear plastic, tinted to lessen the sun's glare; the back half is steel. Mercury first tried out its new top on a pair of experimental cars, found that the public liked it well enough for mass production. Factory list price on the Sun Valley (with such standard accessories as heater, radio, directional signals...
Paint on the Curves. The burros and Indians in the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez, where the race started, stared in wonder at the invasion. The palm-fringed streets swarmed with the heterogeneous spawn of the automotive age-sleek Ferraris and squat reef Lancias, souped-up Chryslers and Lincolns and Oldsmobiles, petite Porsches, souped-up Fords. Such blue-chip entries as the Lancias even had their own mobile garage to follow them, a huge trailer complete with machine shop and dormitory...