Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bucking for Sainthood. A salesman for a religious supply house plagues the sisters with his sales talk for Rosary clickers (to show you where you were when you fell asleep), electric vigil lights ("flip it on for ten minutes on bus or car-gives you a lift for that tired feeling"), rosaries in which "each bead contains Waters of Jordan and a blessed guppy...
...pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make his ,lonkey, Picasso took a child's toy auto for a head, car spring for a tail and a machined iron sphere for a body, shaped in the rest with clay. The end product: a heavy-footed baboon shape that rates a guffaw, yet carries over an unabashed tribute to mammalian protectiveness and love that can be enjoyed long after the laughter has subsided...
...Chrysler Corp. comeback that swept the company from a 1954 low of 13% of the car market to 17.1% last year was the most dramatic industrial success story of 1955. The next step, exulted President Lester Lum Colbert, was to recapture Chrysler's traditional 20% of the market, "and then do even better." But Chrysler, far from doing better, was again slipping fast. At the end of the first six months of this year it had assembled only 14.85% of total industry output, 3.78 less than in the same period last year v. a 5.16 rise...
...figures plainly showed, Chrysler's biggest and toughest job is selling. Plymouth, the company's high-volume bread-and-butter car, has dropped from 422,187 units assembled in 1955's first half to 243,541 in the same period this year, the sharpest (42%) slide in the industry. Plymouth's share of total auto production, which stood at 9.92% in 1955's first six months, has fallen to 7.63%. Dodge, the company's No. 2 seller, has fallen from 179,188 units to 108,545, a drop of 40%. Its proportion of auto...
...Curtiss. With its new funds, it will be able to bring out a 1957 Studebaker line on schedule. However it will probably stop making Packards for a year, wait until 1958, when it can develop an interchangeable body shell with Studebaker along the lines of its Packard Predictor dream car. Another possibility: that West Germany's Daimler-Benz will come in on the agreement, use Studebaker's dealer setup to distribute Mercedes cars and trucks in the U.S. Eventually, Studebaker might also build Mercedes products...