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...Chevrolet Division got the first installment of its biggest defense order: a contract to produce jet engines for the Air Force. Production site: an idle plant at Tonawanda, N.Y., where Chevrolet turned out 60,766 Pratt & Whitney radial engines during World...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...
Cook got out and flagged down a blue 1949 Chevrolet sedan. It was crowded. A 33-year-old Atwood, 111. farmer named Carl Mosser was taking his wife and three little children on a vacation trip. Cook squeezed in and made them his hostages. During the next three days & nights, the blue Chevrolet traveled almost 2,500 miles in an erratic course around Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas...
This week G.M. sent wires to Pontiac, Chevrolet and Cadillac dealers stopping sales, until further notice, of new cars shipped after the rollback order. G.M. did not say how long the freeze would last. But it looked as if it was done in hopes of getting the rollback rescinded or persuading Washington to roll back raw materials and wages as well. A price freeze, said G.M., would require an "equally arbitrary wage freeze" under the Defense Production...
...visitors failed to join in the spirit of the occasion, however, forming solemn cliques around the new cars to discuss compression ratios and transmission. These connoisseurs sustained a notible sobriety in the midst of so much bubble gum, as they added wrinkles of their own to the rigors of Chevrolet's road test. The "knee test" figured frequently in this scrutiny: the test consists of placing one knee squarely in the middle of a door panel and pressing violently inward. The metal is then judged on rebounding quality and resonance. This kind of test is necessarily performed in the open...