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Word: volkswagen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reader Jim DiMiceli (who bought a finned Plymouth after becoming disenchanted with a French-built puddle jumper) erred in expecting good workmanship from a nation unable to even govern itself. Too bad he didn't try a Volkswagen. People who can lift themselves from the 1945 flat-off-their-backs to dominate Europe economically can, among other things, build good cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1958 | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...overbearing ambassador (1940-44) from Nazi Germany to the French puppet government at Vichy, onetime professed pacifist and champion of Franco-German solidarity, whose prewar activities in France, e.g., bribing writers and newsmen, helped reduce French preparedness during the gathering storm; by flames in the interior of his Volkswagen after a crash near Dusseldorf, which also killed his wife. Abetz was tried as a war criminal in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. Freed in 1954, he avoided politics, worked as a freelance writer on economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 19, 1958 | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...Detroit isn't solving our problems-it's creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...horsepower. In effect, the desire is for everything the U.S. car already is, only 10 ft. shorter, and somehow a lot cheaper. In any case, a U.S. model would probably be a "compact" car, something like the Rambler, rather than a small car. Nor will it be cheap. Volkswagen learned that fact of life. It planned to manufacture in the U.S., but found that it cost at least $100 per car more. There was one overriding difference-labor cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

DAIMLER-BENZ, maker of Mercedes autos, has bought controlling interest in Germany's Auto-Union, manufacturer of DKW cars, to form world's fourth biggest auto company, largest outside U.S. Daimler and Union had combined 1957 sales of about $525 million v. $500 million for Volkswagen, which has been fourth in industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 14, 1958 | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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