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...tree-shaded and quiet. One afternoon last week its peace dissolved in sounds familiar to every North American -the scream of braked tires, the clatter and bang of a rear-end collision. A sleek new Oldsmobile, with a pretty girl at the wheel, had smashed into a new Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Let Yourself Go | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...week, the Globe & Mail's Columnist Jim Coleman wrote her an open letter: "We read in the public prints where some acorn named Avery Umbrage, who lives down in the Excited States, is trying to have you expelled from the amateur ranks because you accepted a nice yellow Buick phaeton as a gift. . . ." Amidst the commotion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King reassured his people; he guaranteed to the Commons that everything possible was being done to safeguard Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

What would the people of Ottawa do with it-her canary-colored Buick? Said Ottawa's Mayor Stanley Lewis: "I guess we'll put it in a museum with a plaque saying that due to certain people this car had to be returned to the city by Barbara Ann Scott . . . Ottawa's most beloved daughter. And I'm not joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ado About an Auto | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...company overinvested in bicycles, lost out. Unperturbed, Durant got control of the tottering Flint Wagon Works, sold $10,000,000 worth of stock to exploit its rights to manufacture a horseless carriage, designed by David Buick. He made millions in a few years, laid grandiose plans to take over the lusty young auto industry. He almost did, by merging five companies-Henry Ford was the most important holdout-into General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Nothing to Nothing | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...unlike the prairie farm-a farm so big that the old man had never learned to work it. But his big son, Pier, putting all his strength into the job, got rid of the mortgage that first bumper year. And Nertha bore him a boy. Pier bought a 1919 Buick. He was so sure of himself that he laughed at the county agent who wanted him to try contour plowing. Nertha coaxed him to learn how to read and write, but Pier cared more about breeding heifers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Regional & Unique | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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