Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Packard values its traditional rectangular radiator, has kept it on the new cars but smoothed corners elsewhere. Sleekness is achieved by eliminating hood louvers. Available in the five series is true air conditioning with cooling unit and humidifier in the trunk. Two-tone color combinations are outside and inside. Prices: $907 to $5,550 (for LeBaron limousine). Besides making cars, Packard is busy building a new plant to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for U. S. and England. The engines will be worth nearly $190,000,000. (Packard's total 1939 automobile sales...
Psousennes' pink granite funerary chamber is rectangular, 23 by 10 ft. The big granite sarcophagus, carved on the sides in bas-relief, has a cover depicting the king as the god Osiris, supine, with a goddess kneeling behind him and stretching protective arms over his head. The sarcophagus contained a silver mummy case. Before opening this, the professor decided to await the arrival of King Farouk, an enthusiastic amateur...
...third day of his jubilee, John Lewis observed that he wished television were at hand to bring the sight in the hall to his NBC hearers. Suddenly his miners saw a sight indeed: a red, rectangular flag with the hammer-&-sickle of Soviet Russia and U. S. Communism lowered down from the flies above the auditorium stage, over Mr. Lewis' head. Angry delegates leaped from their seats. To puzzled Mr. Lewis, who did not see the flag, a convention secretary passed a note. The offensive emblem was removed. "It appears," said Mr. Lewis, whose union has long barred known...