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Word: chevrolet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auto industry continued its biceps-flexing last week. Chevrolet's General Manager T. F. Keating announced a 1956 production target of 2,500,000 cars and trucks (against an estimated 2,300,000 this year). Figures on the industry's output for the week seemed to support his optimism: 158,877 cars and trucks off assembly lines, against 126,166 the week before and 59,302 a year earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Models | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...minor changes, announced that its new models will go on sale the first week in November. After elbowing Plymouth out of the industry's No. 3 spot last year, Buick Manager Ivan L. Wiles has fixed his sights on the No. 2 spot, now alternating between Ford and Chevrolet. Buick will up production by 100,000 cars to 900,000 in '56, and to a round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOMOBILES: The New Models | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Galloway were trying to cross through a slow-moving line of traffic, when one car, a new Chevrolet, allegedly speeded up to prevent their passage and almost hit Galloway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motorist Assaults Freshman, Faces Hearing in Court | 9/27/1955 | See Source »

SALES TO RUSSIA will be made by General Motors under a new policy, though it will now make no drive to encourage Red business. (Only a month ago G.M. turned down an order from Bulgaria for 500 Chevrolet sedans, even though it was approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.) G.M. itself put a ban on sales behind the Iron Curtain during the Korean war after it was criticized in Congress for a deal to sell truck and auto parts to Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...called Tired Men's Well. Next day, the French tanks were drawn up in a huge U. Long lines of Berher tribesmen filed in between them. Their women and children came with them, many carrying flags. The most important of the Berber Caids (local chiefs) arrived in a Chevrolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Revolt & Revenge | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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