Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sales front there was more reason to cheer. Buick added up 37,429 retail sales in the first ten days of display, with production lagging a month behind 60,000 new orders. It was the fastest start ever for Buick. Cadillac also reported much higher sales and orders than a year ago. Pontiac hopes to boost its 5% share of the market by offering the widest wheelbase in the G.M. line and probably in the whole industry. This means Pontiac '59s will be roomier inside, easier to control than the '58s, hold the road better. Pontiac broadened...
Manhattan society turned out in black tie this week at the opening of an antique shop: the plush new quarters of French & Co., oldest and largest U.S. dealer in antiques. What the champagne-sipping Manhattanites saw was a $10 million display of furnishings ranging from Boucher tapestries valued at $175,000 to a Louis XV desk insured for $250,000. French's splashy housewarming was only part of an antique boom that has sent a stream of pre-1830 European furniture to the U.S. (1957 imports: $14.2 million), has even sent European buyers scurrying here to shop...
...merits of the Kennedy-Ives bill may be debated, but the Republican Party should display a greater concern for the truth than to blame the Democrats for its defeat...
...most flamboyant art collector in South America is a bouncing, bantam Brazilian with the resounding name of Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello. What "Chato" collects goes on display in a public museum in Sao Paulo (pop. 3,300,000), and in just eleven years he has made it the hemisphere's finest outside the U.S. Chato pays for much of the art himself, and gets the rest by a grandiose form of flattery. As publisher of 32 newspapers and five magazines, and as owner of 24 radio and three TV stations, he can elaborately praise any rich...
...that have attracted most attention are the Unfinished Work and Circarama. Unfinished Work was housed in three small huts behind the main pavilion, an attempt to explain three problems which the United States still needs to solve--the American Negro situation, the crowded city, and vanishing natural resources. The display in photographs and explanatory signs emphasized not the problems themselves but the progress that has been made toward their solution...