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Eight new Chevrolets made their showroom debut last Saturday before a large holiday crowd at Porter Square. For the occasion, the management had on hand a collection of bubble gum, balloons, and General Motors comic books which it passed out to the children, and a case of perfume for the ladies. The men got no gifts, but they did get a chance to thump the sides and probe the entrails of the new Chevrolet...

Author: By Robert Sobel, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

...Currently, he has three: a second-hand 1948 Lincoln Continental; a Chevrolet convertible and a new Muntz Jet, which has an aluminum body, a Cadillac engine and a top speed of 140 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...battered 1948 Chevrolet sedan rolled up. Douglas MacArthur stepped forth and advanced, hands in his pockets, his greasy, battered, gold-encrusted cap well down on his head. As the President stepped down, MacArthur held out his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The General Rose at Dawn | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...five-starred Chevrolet sedan, trailed by four other staff cars, 40 jeep-loads of newsmen and lesser brass, MacArthur rolled over the dusty road to Seoul. Along the capital's Mapo Boulevard, where the rubble of siege and street fighting had been hastily swept up, the general took the salute of South Korean troopers, the polite applause of white-garbed civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Liberation | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

True, the Levitt organization is "the General Motors of the housing industry" [TIME, July 3], but we who bought from his Cadillac line instead of his Chevrolet line are sometimes irked by the public impression . . . that all Levitt houses are per se Levittown houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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