Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hood, hammering on the windshield with his shoe. A large stone cracked the glass after the boy was pulled off. Again the car sliced through the crowd, was nearly cut off by a herd of cattle but, after colliding heavily with a cow, slipped past. All along the route to the embassy it was met by a barrage of mud, stones and assorted filth. Further back waved crudely lettered signs: "Go home, little dog Rountree." "Rontry, do not step on our beloved land with your bloody feet!" Waiting at the embassy gate was a truckload of mobsters chanting, "Go home...
...radio character. Name: Hubert Updyke III, a hilarious snob who insisted that his ancestors landed at Cadillac Rock. Hubert bought cars by the gross, drove around with Guy Lombardo's Royal "Canoodians" instead of a radio, had a little man on the hood to work as a windshield wiper...
Ford is up to 6 in. longer, sports 29% more windshield area and a superenamel finish that needs no waxing for the car's lifetime. It has single taillights, parking lights in the front bumper. Ford will recommend regular instead of premium gas (saving: up to $1 a tankful). Beamed Sales Manager Marvin Cahn of Manhattan's Ralph Morgan Motors: "The new Fords won't be displayed till Oct. 17, but we have firm orders for 400-double last year...
...that the recession was brought on by overexpanded credit selling of cars in 1955. "I think there was a coinciding then of two factors," he said. "The economic boom coincided with a freshness and newness of car models not seen for a long time. You had the panorama windshield and other improvements. The dealers got excited about the product. In their excitement they may have overtraded. But the fundamental fact was the business excitement...
Hedge Hopper. In Hot Springs, Ark., when State Trooper Glen Minton stopped a speeder and asked him why he was displaying on his windshield the campaign stickers of two rival candidates for municipal judge, the man said: "With my traffic record, I can't afford to be wrong...