Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Automobile Association recently. Last week, as more and more of 1956's new models hit the showrooms, there was little indication that the automakers were paying attention to A.A.A.'s horsepower fear. Plymouth announced a 200 h.p. "Hy-Fire V8" to match Ford's 202 h.p. "Thunderbird V-8"; Dodge and Mercury were boosted to 225-230 h.p., while Chrysler and Lincoln were up to 285 h.p., with most of General Motors still to come. Horsepowers were so high that state legislators talked seriously about cutting speed limits, increasing fines and auto taxes, even passing laws requiring...
FORDS FOR '56 will be lower (down 1 in. for two-and four-door sedans), and higher-powered but little changed in appearance. Higher-priced models will have the Thunderbird Y-8 motor (up to 202 h.p.). Thunderbird production has topped 16,000 in its first year, 25% more than Ford anticipated, but still less than demand...
...exhibit, from an aqua-green Thunderbird to an automatic voting machine on which visitors registered their favorite products, easily outdazzled competition from Red China, even though its display of heavy equipment included machinery made in satellite Europe...
...lives, Novelist Klaas uses the familiar time-machine or flashback technique. Wyoming Schoolteacher Fritz Heine is a home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering stolen food for his emaciated...