Word: buick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
...production in the whole industry. After a drop of 3,000 units a fortnight ago, auto production last week fell 17,600 more to 85,345 units, the worst production week in three months. G.M. last week shut down eleven Chevrolet assembly plants, and this week closed the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac assembly plants for a week. Plymouth also shut down for a week. Ford, which had closed earlier for model changes, had not got back to volume production. On top of the steel shortage were the threats of the rambunctious C.I.O.-U.A.W. to strike Chrysler and G.M. (see NATIONAL...
...turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far-from Hollywood, radio and advertisers-came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...
Some exporters were using duplicates of licenses issued for the shipment of small quantities of goods to export large quantities of commodities high on the restricted list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...