Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHRYSLER COMEBACK will be pushed by one of the biggest expansion programs in auto history. President L. L. Colbert said that the company lost sales in 1955 because it was "not geared" to produce enough. So it will add seven regional plants and expand Detroit production over a ten-year period...
STATION WAGONS are fast becoming one of the most popular auto models. As the all-purpose family car, station wagons are now selling at the rate of 500,000 yearly...
...Kabinenroller, built by famed Airplane Designer Willy Messerschmitt, is the first of a new class of West German midget cars to go on sale in the U.S. The midgets, which make even the little Volkswagen look like a Cadillac by comparison, were born of German auto taxes, including a stiff purchase tax, an annual levy of about $3.42 per 100 cc. of engine displacement, plus compulsory liability insurance costing anywhere from $11.87 a year to $106.87, depending on horsepower. Thus, a Volkswagen's yearly tax and insurance cost is $76, about as much as the average West German earns...
...AUTO SAFETY will be the next big sales pitch of the automakers. Ads for 1956 models will play up such safety features as seat belts, crashproof door locks and padded dashboards (see MEDICINE...
...turned down an order from Bulgaria for 500 Chevrolet sedans, even though it was approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.) G.M. itself put a ban on sales behind the Iron Curtain during the Korean war after it was criticized in Congress for a deal to sell truck and auto parts to Poland...