Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Dodge was selling Dodges, he decided that he needed some exercise. He took up boxing with a vengeance, made himself a skilled pugilist. One day a spare-parts dealer cussed out Auto Salesman Dodge, whose secretary dutifully recorded in her notebook what ensued: "Mr. Dodge sought him out to question him about the statements. The dealer made a wrong move and was suddenly flat on his back." Years later, Dodge's boxing coach remarked to a teller in the Detroit Bank that the bank's president "might have made something of himself if he had stuck...
...nation's auto dealers, at first unable to keep up with orders for 1955 models (TIME, Dec. 13), last week found themselves in the middle of the midwinter seasonal slump. All over the U.S., car buyers were demanding, and getting, fat discounts. While cars were still selling well, dealers were hard put to keep up with the busy assembly lines...
...lure them in, the center will have parking for 8,600 cars, 100 air-conditioned stores, which Puckett estimates will gross $2,000,000 a week. Added attractions: an auditorium seating 500 (for auto shows, square dances, etc.), two six-storied office buildings (one for doctors and dentists), several restaurants, a "Kiddieland," an outdoor ice-skating rink, bowling alleys, a carillon...
...Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background for his new $16,000-a-year post, Republican Joe Finnegan has done an impressive amount of arbitration and mediation work, approved by both labor and management, e.g., Mack Trucks, C.I.O. United Auto Workers, National Cash Register, C.I.O. United Steelworkers, Royal Typewriter...
...Peter) O. (for Olai) Peterson, 58, was elected president of Mack Trucks, Inc., succeeding E. D. Bransome, who continues as board chairman. Norwegian-born, Peterson was brought to Michigan by his parents when he was six. After high school he got into the auto business as a Buick car inspector, went to Studebaker in 1919, where he rose to be director of purchases in 1933, manufacturing vice president in 1947 and executive vice president...