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...Many Cars? Automen last week were brimming with optimism that 1957 car sales will rank second only to the 7,400,000 of 1955. Predicted G.M.'s Curtice: "The industry in 1957 should produce and the domestic market absorb approximately 6,500,000 cars and 900,000 trucks. Including export, production should approximate 8,300,000 cars and trucks." Curtice candidly admitted that a year ago he had been overoptimistic in anticipating a 6,500,000-car year for 1956. But this year, said he, "the supply of new cars in the hands of dealers on Jan. 1 will...
Watching Chrysler's struggles, Detroit's automen are almost as anxious for success as the company itself. For one thing, topflight competition has always resulted in a bigger overall auto market. For another, both Ford and General Motors are worried about monopoly charges by the Justice Department if Chrysler's percentage of auto sales should slip. Chrysler is determined to set their minds at ease. Growls blunt-talking Edgar C. Row, former boss of Chrysler Corp. of Canada, who took over the No. 2 spot under Tex Colbert last July: "From now on, every s.o.b. who sells...
...sales race began, automen were confident that 1957 would be a near-record year. Chewy General Manager Edward N. Cole expects sales to jump 600,000 units next year for a 7,500,000-unit total-the second best in history...
...early postwar days when any old design would sell are fast dying. To keep on building some 1,200,000 new houses annually, they must meet changing consumer needs and desires much in the same way Detroit's automakers turn out an annual model change. And like the automen, who quickly caught on to postwar yearnings for longer, lower, higher-horsepowered cars, so U.S. homebuilders must ask the man who owns one, and listen to his ideas...
...carry out his five-year "Power, Transportation and Food" development program. Kubitschek needs to attract foreign capital to Brazil. Last week he took time to talk with prospective U.S. and German investors, got quick action on at least one project. A team of Mercedes-Benz automen arrived in Rio from Germany one morning, conferred with the President that afternoon, promptly got a truck-factory plan speeded on its way. "No matter how busy I may be," vowed Kubitschek, "any foreign investor who comes to Brazil will find my door open...