Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...models. Final figures for May showed new car inventories at 800,000 units, down 70,000 from April. With June production scheduled for only 446,000 units, some 3% less than June 1955, automakers expect to cut inventories another 100,000 by the first of July. Led by Chevrolet, which has sold a whopping 822,729 cars and trucks in 1956's first five months, only 820 fewer than the 1955 record, many companies reported sharp sales spurts in the last ten days of May. Across the U.S., dealers were hoping that both the bad spring weather and their...
Point of Honor. In Tucson, Ariz., police looked for the man who hopped into Walter Prideaux's Chevrolet, robbed him of a gold wedding band, a $50 watch, $2 in cash, promised to leave the car at a specified parking space, explained before he drove off: "I'm no car thief...
...estimated that three out of every five loan applications were being turned down, but good credit risks had little trouble. Most dealers blamed last year's mammoth production and this year's poor weather for the sales slump. Said San Francisco's Ellis Brooks, a big Chevrolet dealer: "Everybody cries a little bit, even with a loaf of bread under...
When Interior Secretary Douglas McKay announced in March that he would run for the U.S. Senate in Oregon this year, he expected to win the Republican nomination with the ease of a stone rolling down Mt. Hood. A big automobile dealer (Chevrolet and Cadillac) in Salem for some 30 years, a state senator for four terms and governor for four years (1949-52), McKay had been winning elections in Oregon since his college days. At first he planned to stay in Washington until June 1, with only a speech here, a bow there before the May 18 primary. But back...
From the farms the harder times have spread to the small towns in the farm country. Hardest hit are implement dealers, who do most of their business with farmers. Auto dealers have been hurt, too, but not nearly as much. Clark Sheesley, the Buick-Chevrolet dealer in Cambridge, Ill. is doing 75% less business with farmers than he was a year ago, but his total business is down a still uncomfortable-but much smaller...