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...dong battle with Chevrolet for top place, Ford spent $65 million on its 1954 line. Chief new feature: an overhead-valve V-8 engine that delivers 130 h.p., v. 110 h.p. in last year's model. A new Ford hardtop, the Skyliner, and the Sunliner convertible have transparent plastic roofs over the driver's seat...
While more steel was produced in 1953 than ever before, so were more plastics. Chevrolet's Corvette, with a Fiberglas body, was just getting into mass production; it might be the forerunner of a whole new school of automobile design and materials. The chemical industry, cashing in on the new field of petrochemicals, was finding new markets every day; polyethylene, for example, once known merely as the squeeze-bottle plastic, was replacing rubber, metal and even other plastics in everything from piping to poker chips. Textile makers had to cope with a bewildering new array of synthetic materials...
Sudden Riches. Some Hong Kong Chinese manufacturers have piled up quick riches. Typical is the rise of Haking Industries, Ltd., a plastic toothbrush producer launched in 1949 by a group...
...Ford Motor Co. showed off its 1954 Mercury this week and gave the rest of the medium-priced field something to shoot at: a sleek new hardtop model named the Sun Valley. The top over the front seat is made of clear plastic, tinted to lessen the sun's glare; the back half is steel. Mercury first tried out its new top on a pair of experimental cars, found that the public liked it well enough for mass production. Factory list price on the Sun Valley (with such standard accessories as heater, radio, directional signals...
...active boy a broken arm is bad enough, but when Terry McNamara broke his right arm he was completely disabled. He had been born with no fingers on his left hand-"nothing but little buttons." in the words of Patrick Clarkson, one of Britain's ranking plastic surgeons. But the broken arm proved to be a good thing for Terry in the long run: his mother, who runs a fruit stand in the grubby Elephant & Castle area of South London, took him to Guy's Hospital. There. Surgeon Clarkson saw him and got an idea...