Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately for Mrs. Kathleen Busick of Milwaukee, she set something of a legal precedent as she inched her family's brand-new Chevrolet cautiously along an icy street. She braked to a stop behind a bus; Electrical Engineer Bruno R. Budner's car skidded into hers from the rear. Claiming assorted injuries as a result of the collision, Mrs. Busick sued Budner...
Secrecy is a fetish in the auto-rental business, but best estimates are that Chevrolet-sized Avis has upped its revenues by 34% in 1966, compared with Cadillac-sized Hertz's gain...
...succeeded him last October, and with the help of foreign loans, the canal has been widened by 80 ft. and deepened for drafts of 38 ft. instead of 35 ft. Employees are kept on their toes by Mashour, who tours the canal banks every day in a black Chevrolet. The one real grievance against Egypt is that it still bars the canal to Israeli traffic...
...Nielsen drove up in a Chevrolet van that contained telephone, air conditioning, fluorescent lights, desk, couch, wall-to-wall carpeting and drawers of files, facts and insurance tables. He went to work with statistical tables and a desk calculator, and had soon figured out-and sold-a $9,000 policy...
Millions from a Wedge. Why should Evans, whose only auto experience was a summer job as a teen-ager in a Chevrolet axle plant, want to move into such a thicket of trouble? Part of the answer lies in family history. Evans' father, a Virginia lumber dealer, made millions by inventing and manufacturing a wooden wedge to secure the wheels of autos shipped by train. He founded Evans Products Co., broadened it into one of the country's big suppliers of plywood and railroad loading equipment. Six years ago, the family lost control to West Coast Industrialist Norton...