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...guide covers 12 broad areas of vocational opportunities, with articles written by men distinguished in the fields. President Pusey, novelist Herman Wouk, industrialist Harlow Curtice, and politician Harold Stassen are among the 39 prominent contributors...
Know Your Weapon. Meany quoted a statement by General Motors President Harlow Curtice (in the current Look): "I no longer see any reason why sales of cars and other peacetime products to the Soviet bloc cannot be increased as long as such sales fit in with U.S. State Department policies." Said Meany: "Doesn't Mr. Curtice realize that to the Iron Curtain rulers, to the Communist warlords, foreign trade is not so much an economic undertaking, as we know it in the free world, but rather a political weapon to be used against...
...loudest voice of all for easier money came from General Motors' Harlow Curtice. Answering critics of current auto-payment terms, Curtice said the down payment on new cars continues to average 40% of the price; the average installment is $80 monthly, and only two out of 100 are repossessed. Concluded Curtice: "The new high level of automobile credit is in keeping with the higher level of disposable income...
...line with demand. Actually, production by any standards was still good-the 147,877 new cars produced last week were 9% fewer than the same week a year ago but still at the high annual rate of 7,700,000 units. This pace will probably not continue. G.M. President Harlow Curtice took another look at '56 sales prospects, whittled his month-ago prediction of a 7,060,000-car year to 6,500,000, which would still make 1956 the automakers' second-best year. He also announced that G.M. will spend $1 billion, a record for one year...
Said he: "I think some people are indulging in wishful thinking about their chances for fast and fabulous gains. We are businessmen, not miracle men. Of one thing I am reasonably sure: 1956 will not be as good a year as 1955." General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice, in Manhattan to open G.M.'s 19th Motorama, agreed: while "1956 will be profitable for everyone willing to work to make it profitable," it will inevitably be "the second-best production and sales year in the history of our industry...