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Word: willow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improvised theater in an old army hangar at Willow Run, Kaiser-Frazer dealers gathered to see their company's new models. The dealers were gloomy: their share of U.S. auto sales had slumped from an early postwar 5½% to 1%; they knew that K-F had staked its entire future on the new models, pledging all its assets for the $44 million RFC loan which made the new line possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Gamble | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Willow Cabin with Marsha Hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Record Six Months? Among the independents, Packard kept up with the price-trimming parade by lopping $50 off the price of its Ultramatic automatic drive, bringing it down to $175. And last week, Henry & Edgar Kaiser summoned K-F dealers and distributors to Willow Run to let them see their new models with an automatic shift (Hydra-Matic, purchased from G.M.) and K-F's new lower-priced, i oo-inch-wheelbase car. It hopes to get the small car into production by summer. Another new arrival: automatic transmission on the Studebaker, due sometime after April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Parade | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Willow and I, with Jane Wyman and Mel Ferrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...never attack human beings, live almost entirely on rodents. Unaccustomed to civilization, they blunder into odd places. Last week for the first time the owls invaded Washington, perched on Government buildings, and swooped down to feed on the bothersome starlings. Five of the interlopers landed at Detroit's Willow Run commercial airport, were shot from the ILS poles because airmen feared they would throw the electronic landing beam off its bearing. Dr. George Miksch Sutton, ornithologist and bird painter of the University of Michigan, who had predicted this year's invasion, says that by late February the surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Year of the Owl | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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