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Some of the letters were merely apple-polishing jobs. But others, like the letter of Thomas B. Anslow, 42, who won first prize (a Cadillac), had a ring as authentic as the clang of the drop-forge hammer he operates in Buick's Flint plant. Wrote Anslow, a veteran of 23 years: "A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines. . . . Pounding, pushing, squeezing white-hot steel. ... A forge . . . rattles the windows in buildings for blocks around. It is hot and dirty and it is noisy. It has a smell of heat...
...Americans, the automobile not only represents the keystone of happiness and the hallmark of success but is the only unshifting goal in a baffling world. Millions who live unscarred through the jalopy or adolescent stage of life toil for decades to progress from Ford to Pontiac, from Pontiac to Buick, and cannot die happy unless guaranteed delivery to the grave in a Packard or Cadillac hearse...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...
Hillbilly Come-On. One afternoon when he drove into Mendenhall, seat of Simpson County, only seven courthouse loafers were on hand to greet him. To drum up a crowd, his nephew, Cason Rankin, hooked up a loudspeaker in the Congressman's black Buick sedan, toured the town playing hillbilly recordings. But half an hour's driving netted only three more shirtsleeved listeners. John Rankin brushed back his mane of stringy yellow hair, flung out his arms and shouted...
...seen so many convertibles and custom jobs; never before had there been such traffic jams. A glimpse at license plates told Kansans where most of the shiny cars came from-the rich western wheat counties. Kenneth Richardson, a 24-year-old student, told how he got his green 1947 Buick convertible: "During the summer I hired a crew for two combines and folowed the wheat harvest from Oklahoma to Canada. We made plenty...