Word: buick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both. The L-M Division is now turning out 800 Lincolns, Mercurys and Continentals a day. By next spring, when three new assembly plants (Metuchen, N.J., St. Louis and Los Angeles) get into production, the company hopes to step up production and give Cadillac, Chrysler, Oldsmobile, Dodge, Pontiac and Buick a run for their money...
...summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding to the mosque by muleback, made the trip more comfortably in a blue seven-passenger Buick, 1941 model...
Some of the letters were merely apple-polishing jobs. But others, like the letter of Thomas B. Anslow, 42, who won first prize (a Cadillac), had a ring as authentic as the clang of the drop-forge hammer he operates in Buick's Flint plant. Wrote Anslow, a veteran of 23 years: "A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines. . . . Pounding, pushing, squeezing white-hot steel. ... A forge . . . rattles the windows in buildings for blocks around. It is hot and dirty and it is noisy. It has a smell of heat...
...Americans, the automobile not only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...