Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Threats to Rewards. "This petition will soon be typed," explained an official. "You will sign it first. On Friday evening a car with two of our Communist friends will call for you. All priests will be home then, and you will persuade them to sign . . . You'd better not hedge," he added, pointing to the chief of political police. Then, shifting his line from one of threats to rewards, the Red official promised: "If you cooperate, you'll be made head of the Church in Hungary...
Beast of Burden. This chromium-plated razzle-dazzle was not only G.M.'s recognition of the approaching buyers' market for all cars; it was also a salute to the role which the automobile plays in U.S. life. To the average American, a car is much more than a chromium-jawed beast of burden. It is the next thing to being a member of the family, regarded as affectionately as the Bedouin regards his camel, or the Mongolian tribesman his shaggy pony. It is both a necessity and luxury, a help in making a livelihood and a means...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
PONTIAC has lowered its hood and roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
CADILLAC has ventured even farther along the high-compression road. Its 160-h.p. V-8 engine, most powerful in any G.M. car, has a 7.5-to-1 ratio, yet is 5 inches shorter and 215 pounds lighter than last year's. The mileage, 14 to a gallon, is 15% better. Last year, by introducing rear fenders with raised fins, Cadillac raised customers' brows. Now it has the satisfaction of seeing the style widely copied in G.M. cars...