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Mass Production Wheel Drive
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1,494 words... that publication, which is the longest any motoring journalist has worked for the same paper. The 1000 cc Toyota Corona was launched in May of 1957. The year of 1958 was the year of the Ford Edsel, a V 8 engine of 5. 9 or 6. 7 liters. The Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford in Detroit launched it. Their appearance was quite strange with a wrap around windshield, prolific fins, lots of flashy chromium plating and a radiator reminiscent of a horses neckwear. Only 35, 000 were sold in the first si...
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Put Into Effect Spread Of Communism
1,567 wordsThesis: The "Red Scare" of the 1950 's caused a massive movement for the people of that time period. IV. Leaders in the movement-McCarthy C. Comparisons between the Fifties and now America: Land of the free, and the home of the brave. This famous expression has been used numerous times throughout history, even scoring a line in our country's national anthem. But in our high-tech society, many Americans can not even understand what our forefathers went through to achieve this American dream. Peop...
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World War Ii African Americans
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721 wordsFashion is a significant aspect in peoples lives, and is influenced by various parts of society. Mostly there are useful reasons behind certain fashion trends, but there are some trends that have no evident origin or purpose. It was different in the USA, where wartime restrictions had been quickly removed, and where the new consumer society was forging ahead helped by new developments such as the start of the credit card system in 1950. But these differing conditions produced a similar effect on...
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Argyle Sweater Vests Barbie Like Figure Style
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Second World War Margaret Thatcher
2,448 wordsCompare and Contrast of the 1950 s and 1970 s UK Economy Historical writing about the British Welfare State has tended to stress the eventual triumph of collectivism over individualism. History of United Kingdom economy after 1950 s is a story of linear development and progress. However, this story was put under question by the apparent reversal of the late 1970 s, which began with Labour prime minister James Callaghan's speech of 1976. In his speech, he told the Labour Party's Conference that g...
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2,021 wordsCivil rights was and still is an ever changing picture. In the 1950? s, civil rights went from being a generally southern issue, to being a national concern. The issues of the day began to be spilled out over a new medium called television. During the 1950? s, television had become popular and spread throughout the United States. The racial issues of the south were now being seen in living rooms across the nation. The 1950? s laid the groundwork for what would become the massive civil rights mov...
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1,805 wordsAfter WWII why did the economy prosper and what role did consumerism play in the 1950 s? After WWII many economists predicted a recession in the American economy. It is easy to do so when at the peak of post war unemployment in March 1946 2. 7 million searched for work. In 1945 people were laid off from their jobs. However, in 1945 the US entered one of its longest, steadiest, periods of growth and prosperity (Norton 829). How could this be? With many new developments affecting the United States...
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Salem Witch Trials Three Hundred Years
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Salem Witch Trials Three Hundred Years
2,416 wordsA political cartoon shows a massive stone wall surrounding tall office buildings which bear labels of Department of Energy, Defense Department, National Security Agency, CIA, and FBI. Outside the wall, which is tagged Government Secrecy, a couple huddles in a roofless hut called Personal Non-Privacy. At the top of the cartoon is printed Somehow I feel this is not the way the founders planned it. Indeed, Americas founding fathers most likely did not plan for the United States to be governed in su...
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3,313 wordsEach Generation Of Americans Must Define What Each Generation Of Americans Must Define What It Means To Be American Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American (William Jefferson Clinton) On 4 July 1776 the American colonies issued a Declaration of Independence from Britain, written by Thomas Jefferson; in it were listed the grievances that colonists felt towards the British government in general, and King George III in particular. The American people no longer accep...
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Rio Grande Director Producer
2,914 wordsDorothy John Ford John Ford Dorothy R. Donahoo English 2145 Dr. Klink 04 / 03 / 99 John Ford was an American motion-picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of Americas great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Fords style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in whats in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent f...
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Avant Gar Dists Expressionist Painters Franz Kline Voulkos
3,066 wordsThe exhibition of recent stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos at Frank Lloyd Gallery featured the sort of work on which the artist established reputation in the 1950 s. The work was greeted with stunned amazement. However now it is too, but its amazement of a different order the kind that comes from being in the presence of effortless artistic mastery. These astonishing vessels are truly amazing. Every ceramic artist knows that what goes into a kiln looks very different from what comes out, and al...
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21 St Century Fear Of Losing
1,111 wordsThe Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein A Comparison to the Future Seen through the eyes of 1950 Author By Rebecca Irwin The Puppet Master is a futurist fiction novel written by Robert Heinlein in the 1950 s. There are many similarities to Heinlein's 21 st century future to that of the real future. There are also many instances when he missed the mark of foretelling the future with his fiction. Robert is confined to foretelling the future in The Puppet Masters to those situations and experience...
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