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Word: visor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending $10 million to double production capacity to 1,000 vehicles a week, and may even begin to make its own appliances. The company has long cut costs by making almost everything else going into its machines; for example, it makes at a cost of $1.60 each the sun visor that it once bought from an outside supplier for $16. It also is beginning to rent recreational vehicles to people who like the machines but have no place to park or garage them between vacations. But the Hansons do admit that Winnebago's growth is likely to slow; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Pampering Campers | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...approached an imposing 12,000-ft. peak called Hadley Delta. The astronauts stepped out of the rover and began to select rocks, describing each to the fascinated geologists back in the science support room in Houston. One rock looked like "green cheese"-until Scott raised his gold-tinted visor and saw that it was really gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Apollo 15: A Giant Step for Science | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

Bolivian journalists have more to fear than tricky decrees. Alfredo Alexander, publisher of La Paz's morning Hoy and evening Ultima Hora, was with his wife at his elegant estate when a man with a visor cap and large dark glasses delivered a shoe-box-size package. It contained a bomb, and minutes later the explosion killed the couple, sending shock waves through city rooms across the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship and Fear | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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