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...himself. But motormakers guessed it might be a 1947 counterpart of the famed old "Tin Lizzie." In fertile Detroit, which last week was preparing to celebrate the automobile industry's golden jubilee (see cut), General Motors too was gestating, planned to bring forth a low-priced Chevrolet. The newly formed Chevrolet Light Car Division asked the Civilian Production Administration for authority to erect two factories near Cleveland to build its new product. It hoped to be in production by the middle of 1947, kept mum on specifications and price. Quietest of all: the Chrysler Corp., whose plans...
...only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...
Citizens big & small chipped in: Carmelo Digerlando, 64, a blue-aproned shoemaker whose eyes have grown dim and his hair white since he left Sicily 40 years ago; Judge T. Linus Hoban, a war hero; thrifty, 13-year-old newsboy Harold Kornfeld; live wire Roy Stauffer, Chevrolet dealer. Total number of bond buyers...
...first week of spring, Francis Albert Behymer went out to look for news, and put a thousand muddy miles behind him. At little towns like Martin, Tenn., and Benton, Ark., the wiry 76-year-old stopped his plodding Chevrolet and got out to visit with the villagers. He talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home...
...113th day, after a 25-hour nonstop conference, the General Motors strike was settled. When news of the settlement reached the pickets at the Cadillac motor plant, some of them wept. In Detroit, some pickets shouted, tore up their placards and threw them to the March winds; Chevrolet Local 235 ordered its men to keep marching until ratification of the agreement by the rank & file was final...