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...Grew was the first off the boat. Dressed in a grey flannel suit, he stepped gingerly down the gangplank, looked about him at the cluttered, smoky, indubitably American landscape of Jersey City. Then he clambered into a black Buick sedan, which took him across the dock where the reporters and newsreel men were waiting. As he grinned, deep lines showed in his face. But he was happy. Nervously fingering his glasses, he stepped up to the newsreel microphone...
...Even in the last war, Germany used steel for shell cases. World War I historians trying to reconstruct battle scenes could always spot German trenches by rusted cartridges lying around in contrast to the bright brass cartridges along Allied lines. Last week Buick said it had solved the engineering problems of steel casings and is going into large-scale production...
Last week General Electric (which provides many of the generators) reported that present generator installations number 163, include Pratt & Whitney, Ford, Buick, Chrysler...
...inspected some of the factories transplanted beyond the Urals. In a Soviet copy of a 1936 Buick. Author Reynolds was driven over desolate steppes to a new "war city." "The population was 125,000, every one of whom was connected in some way with the production of guns, ammunition or other war equipment." There Reynolds paid a visit to a TNT factory, learned the elements of explosives manufacture and the elements of Communism from one Chekotikhin, "obviously a very fervent member of the Party," who was shocked because Reynolds admitted that he had never visited a Du Pont factory...
...Even the new be-bustled bathing suit doesn't render a beautiful lady as unattractive as one of those proto-masculine outfits which leaves her about as cuddly as a two-man tank. All she can do to relieve her repressions is to drive around in the Buick station wagon purchased by her A.R.P. group to prove itself more socially elite than any neighboring corps...