Word: tuckaway
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...Eventually it became a part of the Cord Corp. and turned out cars that were far ahead of their time, highly stylized, with front-wheel drive, supercharged engine, bucket seats and tuckaway headlights. In 1937, trouble with the SEC forced Cord to sell his holdings, which by then included aircraft companies and a shipbuilding concern, for $2.6 million. In the same year, manufacture of the Cord-a high-priced ($3,000) car in the Depression era-was discontinued. Cord moved to Nevada two years later; in the '50s he became a state senator and a major force in local...
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