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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Loulou | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Quickening Pulse | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Phantom Giveaway | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Phantom Giveaway | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Going Up | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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