Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
...aircraft manufacturers are getting air-cooled engines about as fast as they can put them into planes. Combined output of Pratt & Whitney and Wright is about 2,900 engines (2,850,000 horsepower) a month. The supply will be stepped up more than 2 for 1 after Ford, Buick and Studebaker come into production late this fall with their air-cooled engine plants, will jump again when Chevrolet starts producing radials by the fall of 1942. Allison, with production-slowing difficulties now apparently licked, has big production in sight, hopes to catch up with plane production by fall...
...Saturday afternoon traffic Whizzed by, their cultured thumbs snared vehicles ranging from a hen crate carrier to a 1941 Buick convertible headed for Rye Beach with two Wellesley girls. One hour and a half later the entire playing squad was leisurely going through their warmup on the Exeter diamond...
...General Motors, Chrysler and Ford will build airplane sub-assemblies, ship them to four midwest and southwest assembly plants, there to be put together by aircraft mechanics under the supervision of airplane manufacturers. Detroit has already prepared to build engines to fly bombers. Ford is building Pratt & Whitney engines, Buick will build a plant (near Chicago) to do the same. Studebaker will build Wrights. During the past three weeks, while the Big Three were preparing to produce airplane parts, order lists have been heavy with contracts for aircraft accessories, wing panels and other plane parts to automotive suppliers-Murry Corp...
...inferiority complex After college she worked awhile in a department store at $11.50 a week, finally got a job in Detroit's civic repertory theatre, moved on to Manhattan. She belongs to the "sensible" school of Hollywood actresses, dresses sloppily in slacks and checked blouse, drives her own Buick convertible, stays away from nightclubs...