Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year. Dodge dealers reported sales for the week up 684.4% from a year ago, De Soto dealers 238%. Packard sales for September were at the highest monthly level in more than two years. Hupp reported a production gain for the fifth consecutive month. General Motors reported that Buick's September sales were 1,400 units above the previous year, Pontiac's 5,000, Chevrolet's 38,000. Combining the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sales organizations had not only bolstered dealers but increased those cars' percentage of the business in their price classes as follows: Buick...
...which President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like...
...Zook did not seek his U. S. job, nor did his friends seek it for him. Dr. Zook moved with his wife and adopted son to Wesley Heights, Washing ton suburb. He plays golf twice a week, is noted for length off the tee. Daily he steers his Buick to the office where he works at a desk usually clear of papers. Dr. Zook knows President Roosevelt, but not as yet very well. Since he took office in July it has become apparent to him as much as to anyone that the New Deal has scarcely touched Education. Last month...
...Buick closed its manufacturing plants at Flint because of cessation of retail sales shortly after General Motors announced February sales of 42,000 cars against 51,000 in January and 47,000 in February a year ago. Last week, however, Chevrolet brought out on schedule its new "standard six," minus 3 inches of wheelbase, 5 horsepower, and various luxury gadgets including free-wheeling-selling for $50 to $75 less than Chevrolet's "master six." Three days after the public was invited to see the new car, Chevrolet like Buick shut down its Flint plant...
...last year. "Stop making respirators," said President Lowell in effect. "I will like hell!" roared young Emerson, long, lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator which has saved hundreds of chest paralyzed cases, sued rambunctious John Haven Emerson...