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With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Offers He Couldn't Refuse | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...Christmas-morning quiet on Pennsylvania Avenue was sundered by a clatter of metal. Out on the White House lawn was an unexpected and most unwelcome package: a 1975 Chevrolet had crashed through a wrought-iron gate at the northwest corner of the grounds and screeched to a halt a few feet from the mansion's north portico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Gate-Crasher | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...issues. A former city and state prosecutor as well as an assistant state attorney general, D'Amours vowed to apply his legal skills' to "bust up the big oil companies" and the "giant corporations." He ran a low-budget campaign, downplaying his Democratic ties in edging out Chevrolet-Cadillac Dealer David Banks. He won despite the opposition of William Loeb's Manchester Union-Leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: New Faces and New Strains | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...surviving children and a nephew in something very close to style. An image drawn from these times captures a rural American dream: "O, it was a beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers' union told blacks that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Heart of Darkness | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...analysts predicted that small car sales would drop back below 50% of the U.S. market; indeed, they now account for 47% of all cars sold in the U.S. But GM is nonetheless active in the small-car market. This fall's lineup sports four new subcompacts (Chevrolet Monza, Buick Skyhawk, Pontiac Astre and Oldsmobile Starfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Four for the Road at GM | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

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