Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white clapboard Colonial house...
Even the automobile industry was gradually gaining on its backlog. Though raw materials were still scarce and dear (see below), the industry last week chalked up another production record (122,717 cars and trucks). In Chicago, used car dealers were cutting prices up to $500 a car...
...already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped 1,500), hoped to catch up by next April, when its output...
Last week, at Paris' 35th automobile "salon," in the huge, ugly Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about...
...Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles to the gallon...