Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symbolic of one face of Muncie. Other department stores are also doing a pretty good business. J. C. Penney, the Industrial Trust & Savings Bank, and the Muncie Federal Savings & Loan have put up new buildings within the past two years. A full work force comes and goes from the Chevrolet transmission plant and the Delco-Remy battery plant. But Warner Gear, maker of auto transmissions and normally Muncie's No. 1 employer, has laid off one-third of its boom-time payroll of 4,500. Many of the city's foundries and tool and die shops that supply...
...Missions. The kidnapers disposed of all clues by burning the kidnap car and dropping their typewriter into the Seine. Pierre and Raymond decided that life was, at last, loverly. Pierre got a Studebaker and a small Fiat; Raymond bought a Peugeot, a Chevrolet Impala and a Thunderbird. Their girl friends, Ingelise and Rolande, blossomed out in new clothes...
Chrysler shut down entirely; Ford, Chevrolet and Studebaker closed plants. The industry last week assembled only some 92,500 cars v. 100,000 the previous week...
Many dealers are not convinced. Says Chicago Chevrolet Dealer George Bond: "It's impossible to fill every order from stock anyway." Adds an Atlanta dealer: "If you tried to stock every single model in every single color with every single type of equipment, you'd come up with 10,000 cars." Many dealers think that Detroit is putting out too many models as it is, and that car buyers are simply confused. "I'm convinced we could sell just as many cars with fewer models," says another Chicago dealer. "We've heard from Detroit that they...
...quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost $75,000 in the stock market, taught driving to the novice customers of a Bronx Chevrolet dealer, sold religious statuettes to the followers of Harlem Evangelist Daddy Grace, drove an ambulance for one day and was fired because several passengers all but expired while he searched for the hospitals of the unfamiliar city...