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...have jumped so high in the past fortnight that Ford dealers have only one-fourth of their normal supply, lowest in the company's history. Cadillac has orders for the next nine months' output; Plymouth has an average of only three cars a dealer, Oldsmobile 3.5, and Buick 3. Instead of waiting for Big Three models, many customers are buying from Nash, Studebaker and Hudson, whose sales are up as much as 47%. Even used-car dealers have begun to feel the change. Automen do not expect the sellers' market to ease up. They expect to produce...
Shultz drives a shiny new Buick and has a De Soto station wagon rigged as an ambulance. He pilots his own Fairchild plane for easy hops up & down the valley, and flies with a pilot in an old Waco into mountain meadows. All told, Dr. Shultz manages to see an average of 45 patients...
King Paul of Greece wanted a yacht. Time was when a crowned head could have got himself a yacht (or five yachts) as easily as an American businessman gets himself a Buick. But times have changed. When word reached Washington that the King had ordered a yacht in the U.S. (cost: $220,000), the State Department waggled a warning finger. With Greece still in want and still supported by U.S. taxpayers' money-as U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy had explained it to the Greek government-it had no business spending so much money on royal yachting...
...Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George C. Marshall, who, to Pumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...
...flying boats in the first commercial flights across the oceans, flew Lindbergh on a record-breaking transcontinental flight, Wiley Post around the world, Howard Hughes to a transcontinental record, and Amelia Earhart to her unknown fate. In World War II, engines made by Pratt & Whitney and its licensees (Ford, Buick, Chevrolet, Nash-Kelvinator and others) furnished half of all the U.S. piston horsepower flown in the war. By war's end Pratt & Whitney was developing the piston engine to its limits with its Wasp Major, now the most powerful piston engine ever built. It had also reached...