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...know just what market they were after. Nance set them straight: while continuing to sell some medium-priced cars, the long-range goal was to re-establish Packard as the No. 1 quality car in the U.S. In line with this goal, Nance stepped up output of his costliest models from 3½% of production to 15%, is aiming for 35%. This week he showed off his newest luxury line of eight-passenger sedans. Price...
...lavish as the bejeweled eggs passed out by Russia's rich and royal in the time of the czars. The smaller eggs-delicate trinkets of gold and enamel, flawless rose quartz, pearls and diamonds-were the gifts of Russia's wealthy classes; the largest and costliest eggs were reserved for the reigning Romanovs. Three handsome examples (opposite) are the gold and lapis lazuli egg, with a miniature portrait of Czarevitch Alexis, given by Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1912; the fabulous rock crystal egg (at top), which contains a revolving gallery of twelve gold-framed miniatures capped...
...simple and dignified" inaugural which Dwight Eisenhower had requested turned out, inevitably, to be the biggest, costliest, longest extravaganza in recent Washington history. Jampacked along the curbs of Pennsylvania Avenue, perched in trees or peering through cardboard periscopes, a multitude of 750,000 watched and played their parts in it, while half the population of the U.S. saw it all on television...
...Manhattan last week, the 100% disability proved that he is still a good risk. Paul Ryan, 52, was ready to build the longest (1,605 miles) and costliest (more than $140 million) pipeline in the U.S. It will be the only pipeline carrying refined petroleum products (gasoline, kerosene, heating oil, etc.) all the way from Texas Gulf refineries to the vast markets on the East Coast (see map). The Government considered the project so urgent to defense that it granted Ryan and his U.S. Pipe Line Co. a fast tax write-off on 25% of the construction cost, and gave...
...Vadis. Christianity v. paganism in Nero's Rome, in the costliest ($6,500,000) movie ever made; with 30,000 extras, 63 lions, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...