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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from a German slave labor camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Squatting on its bent axles on Mill street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses is a 1931 Buick Phaeton that is worth its weight in 1950 Cadillacs, according to owner Michael S. Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...bent axles curve proudly as a symbol of the Lowell ownership. President Lowell is noted and revered for many things, one of which is not his driving ability. The Buick was the only car he ever owned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Lowell's Buick Phaeton Has Its Third Undergraduate Owner | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

With its low-slung, "step-down" car, Hudson Motor Car Co. had been competing with Buick, Oldsmobile and De Soto. This week, Hudson unveiled a smaller, cheaper car to compete with Pontiac and Dodge. The new Pacemaker looks like current Hudsons, but has a shorter wheelbase (119 in. v. the Super-Six's 124), a shorter hood, smaller engine (112 h.p., six-cylinder), and a lower ($240 to $265) price. It ranges from $1,675 f.o.b. Detroit for the three-passenger coupé to $1,795 for the four-door sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Step Down | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Full Service. In St. Paul, Minn., when Motorist Darrald Schoenheider refused to pay $7 for having his 1934 Buick hauled out of a swamp, the tow-truck driver returned to the scene, shoved Schoenheider's car back into the swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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