Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damascus last week, two Chevrolet pickup trucks and two black sedans pulled up before a plaster and stone bungalow. Arab soldiers piled in bedrolls, crates, map rolls. Then a redhaired, blue-eyed man, who looked more German than Arab,* climbed into one of the sedans. The convoy filed out of Damascus, swung southward into Palestine. The Teutonic-looking man borrowed a phrase from General Douglas Mac Arthur. Said he: "I have returned." Ahead of Fawzi Bey Kawukji had come some 10,000 Arab volunteers. About one thousand more are entering each week. The Arab "rescue" of Palestine had begun...
...blustery morning last week, they piled oranges, raisins, coffee into their two-place glider and took off, towed by a 1942 Chevrolet until their glider was 100 feet in the air. All day they swooped, soared and whirled above the hills of Palos Verdes, Calif, and out over the Pacific Ocean...
Tubby, easygoing Fred Emich holds a $6,000-a-year state government job in Illinois, but for good & sufficient reasons he has never forgotten that twelve years ago he was a Chevrolet dealer. Last week his long-extinct dealership made Fred Emich a millionaire, at least on paper...
...business, generally, did not charge all that the traffic would bear-e.g., a new Chevrolet which a dealer sold for $1,500 was actually worth $2,300 on a "used" car lot a block away. But many an industry did not charge as little as its prospect of profits would have allowed. Nor did some industries, notably textiles and shoes, reduce prices when sales slipped. Instead, they preferred to close some plants or curtail production to keep prices...
...motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet and Ford...