Word: snorkel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propelled look. Cadillac, which has long built taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change in the rear. It hung the tire mount outside to make more room in the luggage compartment...
...describe the "dip-free" Sheaffer Snorkel pens in South Africa, Grant had to find a substitute for dip (doop), which means "baptize" in Afrikaans...
...simplicity and economy in our automobiles is out of pace with the times, I shall then presume on an old man's (44) right to dream and remember the day when a Ford was a Ford, and not a composite of a Cadillac, a Buick, and a snorkel submarine rolled into...
...Days Under the Sea. The final voyage of U-977 was by far its most memorable. Snorkel-equipped, but with its periscope accidentally shattered, U-977 stayed submerged-and moved blind-for a record 66 days. Each of the two engines broke down in turn and had to be repaired. Diesel fumes and smoke choked the crew. The bulkheads dripped with green mold. Short of soap and wearing wet clothes washed in salt water, the men broke out in rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced...
...Right Combination. Mosler's most promising new idea is its "Snorkel Auto-Teller" for curbstone banking. A customer can drive up to the Snorkel, a gadget the size of a gas pump, do business with a clerk several feet below the sidewalk through a system of microphones, mirrors, and an elevator, without leaving...