Word: vanishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...timidly at first, grow into huge aerodynamic wonders and then recede; teeth and radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact. Now again, reaction...
...this point seems to be a space version of a 'burial at sea.' After suitable rites, the dead astronaut would be simply pushed out into space. And there, because of the vacuum and the intensity of the sun's heat, his body would eventually evaporate and vanish into the vastness of space...
...production again. Despite a 37% drop in sales to the U.S. last year, British automakers hope to regain a fatter share of the market. Says Rootes Motors, Inc.'s Managing Director John T. Panks: "It's nothing but bloody nonsense that the imported car is about to vanish from the U.S. market." To prove his case, Rootes sent to the show a new Humber Super-Snipe sedan designed especially...
...plans for plant and equipment spending showed that in the year's second half they intend to reverse the gradual decline in spending. For the year as a whole, they will cut their expenditures only a moderate 3%. If business picks up, even that small cut could quickly vanish. As it is, manufacturers surveyed by the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission predicted that their 1961 sales would rise...
...came close to illustration, it was because they had a story to tell. As progress chuffed and shrieked across the West over newly laid railroad tracks, Remington explained what that story was. "I knew," he wrote, "that the wild riders and vacant land were about to vanish forever, and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. I began to try to record some facts around me, and the more I looked, the more the panorama unfolded...