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...turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far-from Hollywood, radio and advertisers-came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected...
Edgar Rice Burroughs, biographer of Tarzan, drove his Buick convertible out of the driveway of his home in Tarzana, Calif., was thereupon struck by another Buick convertible which had just been struck by yet another Buick convertible. The autos were injured; 72-year-old Burroughs was not scratched...
Some exporters were using duplicates of licenses issued for the shipment of small quantities of goods to export large quantities of commodities high on the restricted list. Example: license No. 758,447 had been issued by the Department of Commerce for the export of a 1942 Buick car; the copy that went through the Custom House indicated that the license had been used to ship 1,000,000 pounds of flour to Brazil. The perforated word "validated," which made the license official, was forged...
...both. The L-M Division is now turning out 800 Lincolns, Mercurys and Continentals a day. By next spring, when three new assembly plants (Metuchen, N.J., St. Louis and Los Angeles) get into production, the company hopes to step up production and give Cadillac, Chrysler, Oldsmobile, Dodge, Pontiac and Buick a run for their money...
...summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding to the mosque by muleback, made the trip more comfortably in a blue seven-passenger Buick, 1941 model...