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...About every three years some one would raise the question wouldn't we save money in General Motors if we centralized the thing and did all the buying in one big place, pointing out that the Buick company paid a few cents more a thousand for some nuts or bolts or screws or something. We would look it over again and decide no, that it wasn't the right way to do it. Our big problem was to decentralize the thing and clarify the policy, simplify the administration and promote efficiency and avoid the concentration of stupidity. That...
France's precocious Novelist Franchise (Bonjour Tristesse) Sagan, 21, owner of a Jaguar, a Buick, a Gordini racer and an Aston-Martin, is a madcap hot-rodder who once exulted: "I like to drive 200 kilometers an hour [125 m.p.h.] barefooted!" Last week she was expected to survive after her Aston-Martin, tooling along an unobstructed highway south of Paris on a clear day, left the road and somersaulted in a field...
High-Price Class. Buick Roadmaster, 18.6287 m.p.g., 52.3466 t.m.p.g...
...being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness that arises, make up for the loss of the windblown Lambretta feeling and impart a certain air of post-war frugality which is especially good for the contrast it makes to the over-stuffed and over large Buick and its driver...
...spring that was hoped for. Ward's Reports said that auto sales in the last ten days of March ran 13.5% over the previous ten days and boosted March sales over the half-million mark for the first time since June. Sales performances of individual lines were impressive: Buick sales were up 32% in the last ten days, Ford up 15%, Oldsmobile up 10%. March sales of lagging General Motors were the best since last fall and 21% better than G.M.'s own sales experts had predicted. Even hard-pressed American Motors was able to announce...