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...parked his car on the fashionable Boulevard Suchet. got out and walked a few feet, then satisfied that he was not being followed, returned to his car for a small package of opium for a nobleman in a nearby apartment. At this point, the cops jumped out of their Buick convertible, caught him with the goods and arrested the onetime foe of Parisian vice for dope peddling...
...most spectacular performance was turned in by Chrysler. Fighting to regain its lost markets, it came within a half of 1% of President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert's goal by boosting its production from 13% of the industry's total to 19.5%. Plymouth bumped G.M.'s Buick from third place in the output race, with 64,000 cars produced; Chrysler (including the new Imperial) passed Cadillac, with 17,470 cars v. 14,135, but G.M.'s Chevrolet clinched the No. 1 spot for the month with production of 154,517 cars v. Ford...
Masco Stone, 26, is a Negro carpenter who was putting putty on his first-floor window, also on Chicago's West Side. His story is that a round-faced, well-dressed man between 35 and 50 drove up in a light-blue Buick and said: "I guess it must take a lot of money to keep these old buildings in shape." Then, says Stone, he asked whether he believed in God, and when Stone said yes, thrust five $20 bills into his putty bucket and drove away. Stone also cleared his money with the police. "Now I plan...
Nathaniel Patterson, 22, an unemployed Negro laborer just out of the Army, was dejectedly waiting for a bus after having been turned down for his pre-service industrial job. Up drove a two-tone green Buick, he says, and a man about 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing about 160 Ibs., between 45 and 55, got out and asked him if he wanted a lift. Patterson said he was waiting for a bus. "Well," said the phantom, "do you believe in God?" "Of course I do," answered Patterson. This time it was a roll of five $50 bills. "Take this...
...Biggest: 164,876. in the week ending June 17, 1950.) Ford set a post-World War II record; both Chevrolet and Buick scored alltime highs...