Word: buick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engine logged at 134.128 m.p.h., 5.245 miles slower than last year's Chrysler 300-B with a smaller engine. In acceleration tests (a mile run from a standing start) the 300-C set a new record of 86.873 m.p.h. The hefty 300-h.p., 364-cu. in. Buick Century ran second in the flying mile with a creditable 130.766 m.p.h., but in acceleration it was a sluggish also-ran. A supercharged 300-h.p. Ford ran third in the flying mile with 130.058 m.p.h., was third in acceleration (85.006 m.p.h.) behind the Chrysler and a 335-h.p. Mercury (85.511 m.p.h...
Lagging appliance sales forced General Motors' Frigidaire division to furlough 1,700 men, and G.M.'s auto-assembly lines slowed down, as Buick produced 13,000 fewer cars in January than it did in the same month last year. But for those who watched the overall course of the U.S. auto market, there were plenty of other statistics last week to prove that consumers were still buying heavily.* Despite the G.M. reduction, total U.S. auto production was 5% higher in January than in 1956. Chrysler jumped 23%. Ford 25%. And with the best January sales record...
FORD'S NEW EDSEL will swing into production about July 1, go on sale in September. Car will blanket entire medium-price field with 18 models, including two-and four-door sedans, hardtops, station wagons, convertibles. Like competitor Buick, Edsel will sell in four different price classes. Names of Edsel models, from lowest-priced to highest: Ranger, Pacer, Corsair, Citation...
...roadside diner in California one day last week, a green and white 1954 three-hole Buick sedan came to a gentle halt and an elderly couple got out. They were tourists, just passing by. The birdlike little woman chattered warmly to the counterman as she ordered weak tea. Her husband, a tall, stooped, somber man in a sports jacket, remained aloof. His heavy, bald dome wrinkled uneasily; his face drooped; his mouth was firmly shut. He folded and unfolded his big hands, cracking a knuckle occasionally and gazing, with utter absorption, at the garish, commonplace surroundings. His blue-grey eyes...
...needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass windshield and windows replaced with clear glass, at a cost of $160. The cost did not matter where his eyewitnessing was concerned; he wanted to look out at an untinted America...