Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Club of Chicago announced on December 28 that it had established two scholarships in memory of William C. Boyden, III '57 and William S. North, III '58, who were killed in an auto collision on their way home for Christmas...
Curtice refuses to talk in percentages of the car market-talks instead in terms of the expanding gross national product. "We have 3% of the G.N.P. now, and we won't have any less than 3% in 1956," he says. Translating into automobile figures, he predicts 1956 U.S. auto production at 7,060,000 (plus 1,190,000 trucks) -down about a million from 1955. G.M.'s share, if it holds its own, will be 3,500,000 cars...
...tricked-up Buick of the highest-salaried man in the U.S. is hardly noticeable among the bright new Buicks and Chevrolets along Flint's main streets. Flint is the home of the main Buick and Chevrolet plants, the Fisher Body, AC Spark Plug and Ternstedt Divisions (G.M. auto hardware...
...roughly $900 million, it lost $8,000,000. It rode into the black the next year with a net income of $63 million, almost quadrupled the figure by last year with $228 million. Passenger-car and truck sales last year were 1,991,000, or 30% of the U.S. auto industry's total v. G.M.'s 50% and Chrysler's 13%. In the first nine months of this year, net income of $312 million was well above last year...
Checkmate. In Milan, Italy, charged with complicity in a series of auto thefts, Maria Zolla, 19, told the court that she only accompanied her husband on his car-stealing expeditions "to make sure he wasn't running around at night with other women...