Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other New Auto Features To Come
...auto engineers and designers, the sparkling new cars in the showrooms are history. What excites them are the radical changes soon to come. When will all cars have brakes to stop a car automatically as it nears an obstacle? Are carburetors obsolete? How soon will the gas turbine replace the piston engine...
GENERAL MOTORS will shoot for an even bigger share of the auto market in 1956 despite antimonopoly rumblings from the Justice Department. With 50% of U.S. auto sales thus far in 1955, G.M. is boosting prices on 1956 models less than its competitors, has upped Pontiac, Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac between 2% and 5% v. increases of 3% to 8% for competing Ford and Chrysler models...
...will break all production records this year, says General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice on a tour of G.M.'s overseas plants. No. 1 Automaker Britain will turn out 1,250,000 cars and trucks, more than 18% over last year, while West Germany's fast-growing auto industry, now in the No. 2 spot, will make a record 820,000 cars and trucks, more than 20% better than...
...auto industry continued its biceps-flexing last week. Chevrolet's General Manager T. F. Keating announced a 1956 production target of 2,500,000 cars and trucks (against an estimated 2,300,000 this year). Figures on the industry's output for the week seemed to support his optimism: 158,877 cars and trucks off assembly lines, against 126,166 the week before and 59,302 a year earlier...