Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Henry Ford. In 48 years of motor-making, Ford has never sold a six-cylinder car. But newshawks in Detroit last week heard that 400 six-cylinder engines were in the huge River Rouge Plant, guessed the 1941 Ford line would include a six. (Other sixes, especially Chevrolet and Plymouth, have cut into Ford's market, reduced him from first place in 1930 to third in 1940.) Fordmen were mum, but Ward's Automotive Reports said: "Sample [six-cylinder] models are now being turned...
...passenger train, narrow-gauge freight, shaky Chevrolet, pack train and Indian dugout, Explorer Blotner went into the interior in 1931, came out with information on weather, topography, disposition of the natives. Three years later, on an aerial survey of the projected route, his pilot got lost, ran out of gas, made a forced landing in the wilderness. Airman Blotner might still be there if a Brazilian geographic expedition hadn't happened along, lent him some gas which got his ship to Belem...
Nearly everybody in northern Minnesota knows rawboned, six-foot Frank Broker. For more than 25 years he was a logger, one of the best in that logging country. Now he is a jobber, driving through the timberlands in his Chevrolet to buy up small lots of lumber and sell them to the mills. With his good sense, his jet-black Indian hair and his love of talk, he is also a familiar figure in the lobby of the Endion Hotel at Cass Lake, where red and white men of affairs assemble regularly to settle matters of moment. As a past...
...public suspicion that the 1941 new models might be the last for some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting a new record, had much to cheer about. Said Chrysler's tough, dynamic boss, K. T. Keller: "Don't get down in the mouth about business in this country. There is going to be a lot of money spent here-more than...
...came, veterans of the American Field Service, now solid, paunchy citizens, rallied 1,700 strong to the call of energetic Stephen Gallatti, assistant in the last war to Founder A. Piatt Andrew, to resume business. They pitched in, raised funds to send off 38 men, 6 ¾-ton Chevrolet trucks for duty in France, although only 20 ambulances are in the field so far. Their most prominent recruit to date: Cinemactor Robert Montgomery, who last week joined...