Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...eleven months, Gale Hall has sold 846,000 meters. Price: $7.50 (a chromium model sells for $12.95). With the American Automobile Association's stamp of approval as a result of the test, President White hoped to double his sales...
...last week, Berlin's Western sector had five months' supply of coal on hand and a six months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...
...report on slave labor in the Soviet Union had asserted that slave labor forces, supervised by the secret police, accounted for 12.5% of Russia's timber production, 10% of her furniture and kitchenware and 40% of her chromium ores. It also said that the categories of persons listed by the M.V.D. as criminals to be used for forced labor included: liberals, members of Jewish organizations, mystics, industrialists, owners of large houses, persons who have been in the diplomatic service and relatives of persons who have escaped abroad...
...chance to see the low-priced car. Its 100-in. wheelbase is more than a foot shorter than a Ford is, and its design combines something of Ford and Studebaker, and the upswept rear fenders of Cadillac. Inside, it is stripped of everything but essentials (no radio, clock or chromium trim). For additional economy, the body's top and rear are stamped all in one piece, with no rear trunk. Instead, the luggage space is behind the rear seat, which can also be pulled down to provide extra storage or cargo space. The front seat is hollowed...