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Word: chevrolets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

From then on Keller's progress was all up the hill. Shortly after Chrysler left General Motors, "K. T." became executive vice-president of Chevrolet but when Chrysler hired him for Chrysler Corp.'s general manager in 1926 he was glad to chuck his job and go to work for the man he admired most in the motor business. And when Walter Chrysler stepped out of the presidency of his company four years ago he had only one candidate for the job: serious, barrel-chested Dodge President K. T. Keller. For Keller had shown more than production genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Chevrolet's 1940 series (Master Eighty-Five, Master De Luxe, Special De Luxe) are longer (by 4⅜ in.), wider, lower, bigger than any Chevrolet ever built. Prices: unannounced. Alligator-jaw hood locks automatically, unlocks only from the dashboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...from Atlanta. His friends call him a "terrific salesman." It was in that role, nine years ago, that Mr. Rose organized his first traveling educational institution, and by 1938 it was something of a success. If not typical, that year's junket was at least interesting. Into ten Chevrolet trucks piled 198 youngsters, 33 camp counsellors, a great deal of baggage, a doctor and a trained nurse. In Promoter Rose's sock was $9,000 (of which he appropriated $1,100) contributed by parents as spending money for their offspring. For the trip, each "caravaneer" (Mr. Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Second Wind | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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