Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winner of the 1954 race for the No. 1 spot in the auto industry was Chevrolet. So said R. L. Polk & Co., the industry statistician, last week. In 1954 automobile registrations, Chevrolet led Ford 1,417,453 cars...
...answer to the monopoly of the Hederman family's Jackson Clarion-Ledger and Daily News (TIME, Nov. 8). For its first run, the afternoon State Times printed more than 40,000 copies of a neatly made-up 32-page issue. State Times Chairman Dumas Milner, millionaire manufacturer and Chevrolet dealer who led the movement to start the newspaper, said that the State Times already had between 30,000 and 35,000 subscribers, thus reached its estimated break-even point for circulation even before it started publishing...
...Angelo. Texas (pop. 52,000), the murder was the biggest news in years. Wealthy Helen Harris Weaver. 51. wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas...
...boosting its production from 13% of the industry's total to 19.5%. Plymouth bumped G.M.'s Buick from third place in the output race, with 64,000 cars produced; Chrysler (including the new Imperial) passed Cadillac, with 17,470 cars v. 14,135, but G.M.'s Chevrolet clinched the No. 1 spot for the month with production of 154,517 cars v. Ford's 143,761. And the cars were selling: Ford reported its best January sales ever...
...with Ford on June 1, with Chrysler Aug. 31. Ford and G.M. are the key targets, and U.A.W. is sure to play off one against the other. While Ford would be under strong pressure to settle any strike before losing too much ground in its race with Chevrolet, G.M. might be under similar pressure from its stockholders...