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Word: wagoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sporting Life | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

Shares for All. Like most of today's great corporations, G.M. achieved it because giants of old had laid the foundations with big, visionary ideas. The man who founded General Motors was William C. Durant, an ex-carriage, ex-bicycle, ex-wagon maker who first hit the jackpot by backing an auto designer named David Buick. In 1905, Billy Durant capitalized Buick for a staggering $10 million, three years later tried to corner the auto manufacturing business. (Henry Ford agreed to sell for $8,000,000, but at the last minute Durant's bankers backed away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: First Among Equals | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...teams, of course, have hidden whims, and we hope they'll not be ignored. More specifically, there are a number of necessities that Santa should include on his wagon...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 12/21/1955 | See Source »

...girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

Letter of the Law. In San Diego, cornered two days after he took $6 and a $3,000 station wagon from a motel garage, Ex-Convict Conrad Hansen amiably handed over his toy pistol to police, explained that he had used it in the holdup because ex-convicts are not allowed to carry real guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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