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Time passed quickly for no one was too worried about Dever's whereabouts. A group of the youthful Democrats had gathered around Government professor Sam Beer, earnestly debating politics. At 1:45 a Buick convertible drove up and deposited several young Democrats and a pile of campaign literature. "That's the advance car," Tobin said joyfully, "the governor should be just behind...
...Buick will have a V-8 engine with 188 h.p. (its Roadmaster straight eight now has 170 h.p.), and an improved Dynaflow transmission...
Lieut. Colonel Lewis Ellis, assistant U.S. air attaché, caught a well-dressed Briton at work on his 1950 Buick. But when he got near, the colonel saw that the Englishman was scrubbing the car clean and had already scrubbed several others. "I was so mad when I saw what the Communists had done," he explained, "that I went straight out and bought a tin of paint remover...
...popularity of sport cars in the U.S.-especially those imported from Europe-Buick last week showed off one of its own-the Skylark. Standing only 43.6 in. high with its top down, the Skylark is built on a Buick Roadmaster chassis, has a 170 h.p. engine, a top speed of 100 m.p.h., Italian-made wire wheels and red cowhide upholstery. General Motors will put the car into production as soon as it gets orders for 1,000. Price...
...began to slow down. The auto industry had already laid off 91,200 of its 1,200,000 workers. In Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo and Atlanta, auto assembly plants began closing down. In Flint, Mich., the two Chevrolet plants laid off 10,000 men, AC Spark Plug 8,000, Buick 200. In the whole U.S., besides the 475,00 striking steelworkers, an estimated 250,000 others were out of work because of the strike, and other thousands soon would be. The strike's cost to date...