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Word: aeroplan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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Saab (stands for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget-Swedish Aircraft Co. in English) has been Sweden's leading plane manufacturer since 1939. But when prospects for the airframe industry began to look dim after World War II, Saab's aircraft engineers went to work designing a car. By 1950 they produced a wind tunnel-tested model that was nearly perfect aerodynamically, but had to be redesigned to hold people. Since then, under the prodding of slide rule-toting Managing Director Tryggve Holm, 57, Saab has become the car for the automotive purist who revels in its front-wheel drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: Surging Swedes | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

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