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...came, veterans of the American Field Service, now solid, paunchy citizens, rallied 1,700 strong to the call of energetic Stephen Gallatti, assistant in the last war to Founder A. Piatt Andrew, to resume business. They pitched in, raised funds to send off 38 men, 6 ¾-ton Chevrolet trucks for duty in France, although only 20 ambulances are in the field so far. Their most prominent recruit to date: Cinemactor Robert Montgomery, who last week joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Ambulances from America | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...rates are the same: a basic 8?-a-mile with a 10-mile-per-hour minimum, a sliding scale for rising mileage with an ultimate 6½?-a-mile for a minimum 1,000 miles a week, gas, oil, maintenance, and insurance included. Cars: five-passenger Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Studebaker and Hudson sedans. Telegrams to reserve cars are free, and arrangements can be made to charge automobile rentals against credit cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Train-Auto Service | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Detroit last week General Motors Corp. celebrated an event that has yet to happen in any other nation: off Chevrolet's assembly line rolled the 25,000,000th General Motors car. Meanwhile, older mass-producer Ford was nearing its 28,000,000th; and younger mass-producer Chrysler had passed its 7,500,000th. All together, all motor makers of all other nations have yet to build their 19,000,000th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: It Can Happen Here | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear in Mr. Garner's 1926 Chevrolet roadster-only car the wealthy banker-cattleman owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Chevrolet (first in 1938 sales of light trucks): 85 h.p. at prices from $572 (half-ton pickup) to $955.45 (ton and a half stake truck with cab over engine). Feature: for $106.60 extra a two-speed axle for heavy duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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