Word: turreted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
...Chevrolet's special feature for this year is to be found only in the Fisher bodies of the Master De Luxe models. It is called the "Turret Top." This top consists of a single sheet of heavily insulated seamless steel which extends from the top of the windshield well down below the level of the rear window and which is welded to the sides of the body, and heavily reenforced by bows of steel. The special construction of this "turret top" protects driver and passengers from weather discomforts, outside shock, engine and body noises, and eliminates roof leakage. These tops...
...General Motor's new Turret-Top is featured particularly in the Pontiac. Also included are the following; improved knee-action, special hydraulic brakes, silver alloy bearings, improved ventilation and cooling, electro-plated pistons and a radiator grille that apparently runs right over the top of the hood into the windshield...
...race President Coyle entered two lines of Chevrolets, the Standard and Master De Luxe. The Masters have "knee-action" front wheels, new all-steel "turret" tops by Fisher Bodies, are longer, roomier, more streamlined. The Standards have conventional springs, conventional steel bodies. But while the Masters are priced at last year's levels, the Standards have been cut $10 on almost all models, putting them as much as $25 below Ford's standard line. In the past year Chevrolet sold about 100,000 of the lower-priced Standards, will push them strongly in 1935 as a good transportation...
Oldsmobile brought a six and an eight to the Show, both redesigned and bearing the slogan "The Car That Has Everything." "Everything" includes knee-action wheels. engine-over-axle, all-steel "turret tops" by Fisher...