Word: citroen
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...horsepower trading. For his 1942 33-h.p. Cadillac, a gift from Dwight Eisenhower, a dealer gave him "something less imposing": 1) a 16-h.p. Delahaye, which le grand Charlie handed over to a relief agency; 2) a 13-h.p. Hotchkiss for Mme. de Gaulle; 3) an n-h.p. Citroen for himself...
Furthermore, three members of the family which controls Citroen were deported to Germany for noncollaboration, and of these two died in German concentration camps, while the fate of the third is not yet known here...
...slowly. Then Army Service Forces made a deal that produced replacements in France. Within a month after liberation Gnome & Rhone was rebuilding Continental tank motors; Gen eral Motors France was turning out motors for G.M.'s own famed "Six by Six" truck, the workhorse of the Army. Citroen, which had been given a black eye for collaboration, pitched in. Even Renault, whose Paris plant had several times been solemnly pronounced "destroyed" by bombs, had plenty of plant left for Army work...
...wreckage. Military headquarters were knocked out by sharpshooting bombers almost as soon as they were set up. Apparently few bombs were wasted by bad shooting. Harold Francis McEnness, European representative for big, research-wise Bendix Aviation Corp. (aircraft carburetors, magnetos, instruments, other accessories), told of a raid on the Citroen automobile plant outside Paris...
...studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...