Word: models
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Louisiana's Long haters, strong in New Orleans but weak in the parishes, weren't buying any new model of an old machine. At the last minute, they put up an acting U.S. district attorney from Shreveport, Malcolm E. Lafargue, 41, to run against Russell. Last week, in his 1950 Ford, well-equipped with loudspeakers of his own, Lafargue was zipping from one speech to another at 90 miles an hour...
General Walker has a reputation as a crack tactician and a canny trainer of green troops. In World War II he commanded the famed XX Corps, which spearheaded the late George Patton's Third Army across Western Europe. The Korean situation was as different from that as a model-T Ford is from a 30-ton truck. In Korea, Walker would need every scrap of his tactician's ingenuity; hardly ever before in history had a U.S. general taken on such a tough...
...molded plywood chair that California's Charles Eames helped to design ten years ago is a sort of model T in modern furniture. Some 60,000 of the spindly, plain but surprisingly comfortable chairs have been sold, and today they can be found under the rumps of connoisseurs across the nation. Last week Designer Eames had tooled up a brand-new $175,000 factory, was turning out the first 3,000 models of his 1950 line...
...decision was a model of British fair play. Eton won the senior event (for boys over 15) and Harrow the junior. But more important than the judges' verdict was the evidence that the Commonwealth's future leaders would continue to write a clear and handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well...
Levittown has also developed its own unique way of keeping up with the Joneses. Some Levittowners buy a new house every year, as soon as the new model is on the market...