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...will build a new 1,776,000-sq.-ft. Fisher body plant in Mansfield, Ohio, convert a wartime tank factory near Flint, Mich, to body-parts stamping. Oldsmobile will expand its engine plant capacity 50%; Buick will boost annual capacity from 750,000 cars to 1,000,000 cars, while other G.M. divisions will install new machines, new tools, new automation processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Many Cars? | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...cars this year as he did in 1954, has less than a ten-day supply of Chevrolets on hand. Dallas dealer inventories averaged 25% below last year's, and Seattle's Totem Pontiac Co. had on hand only half its normal 65 new cars. Said a Washington Buick dealer: "We sold 136 cars in May, expect to sell 170 in June. June will be the best month we ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Many Cars? | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...Then, swamped by offers for endorsements, interviews and public appearances, he telephoned Fred Corcoran, professional business manager for professional athletes, became a Corcoran client. Later in the day the local Ford dealer dropped around to insist that Jack try out a Thunderbird, al though he already owns a 1955 Buick and an aging Chevrolet. Finally, at 10 p.m. - after two full days of transcontinental pandemonium, highlighted by a 5-minute chat with President Eisenhower in San Francisco, Jack Fleck turned into his own bed for the first night's sleep since beating the great Ben Hogan in the Open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Happiest Man Alive | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

MEDIUM-PRICED FORD will be developed by Ford's New Products Division. Industrial Designer George W. Walker, who designed Ford's pace-setting 1949 model, has been named vice president in charge of styling, responsible for producing the new series to compete with Chrysler, Oldsmobile and Buick in the $3,100 to $3,500 price range, midway between Ford's most expensive Mercury and its cheapest Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...dynamite. Last week he went to the Smith home, supposedly to fix up a backyard swing and playground as a birthday present for Susan Smith, who was turning three. Wolf brought ten sticks of blasting dynamite and put them under the front seat of Smith's Buick, with wires hidden under the floor mat but not attached to the ignition, so there was no danger. Two nights later, while Smith was in his club, Wolf connected the wires on the Buick parked outside. Soon afterward, Smith, homeward-bound, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Bomb Plot II | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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