Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three. Basically, the new models not only look alike; as far as the midsection of the body is concerned, many are identical. The small Oldsmobile (the Futuramic 76), Pontiac and Chevrolet have the same body from windshield to rear window; Cadillac, the big Oldsmobile and Buick also share a body style...
...same way that design now overlaps, so do prices. List f.o.b. prices on the 1949 Chevrolet range from $1,360 to $1,878; on the Pontiac from $1,721 to $2,722; the Oldsmobile from $1,764 to $3,338; the Buick from $1,787 to $3,797; the Cadillac from $2,840 to $5,253. Thus G.M.'s five divisions are competing among themselves...
...manufacturers on their own. They are: Cadillac's Jack Gordon, 48, crack engine man, who worked ten years on the new Cadillac engine; Chevrolet's W. F. Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always...
Team Play. Four months ago, completing the second job and anticipating this year's big thrust toward a competitive market, he gave his corporate team a transfusion of new blood. Dapper, grey-mustached Harlow ("Red") Curtice, 55, the man who had put Buick back on its feet (TIME, Sept. 20), was made an executive vice president and became the man widely regarded as Wilson's heir apparent-a not entirely comfortable spot, considering corporation rivalries...
...astronomical net of about $450 million last year). Neither apologetic nor apoplectic, Witness Coyle pointed out that G.M.'s prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators to step outside. There, he had parked a 1929 Buick and a 1948 Chevrolet. The Chevvy, faster, more powerful and a bigger & better car, actually sold for fewer dollars than the Buick...