Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln, Nebr...
PONTIAC has lowered its hood and roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
...backlogs and long waits had disappeared in a hurry for many competitors (Kaiser, Frazer, Hudson, Lincoln). And with G.M. hoping in 1949 to make 10% more than the 2,048,019 cars & trucks it made in 1948, the buyer's market for G.M. was not far away either...
Flat-Hatter. In Lincoln, Neb., Louis Kramer, suing for $25,000, charged that Emil Aksamit was trying to alienate his wife's affections by buzzing their house in an airplane...
Down Prices, Down Pay. Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co., whose wages are tied to living costs, cut the pay of its 1,089 workers by 2½% to 3% to match the recent drop in the cost of living. The employees could afford it: under its incentive payment plan, Lincoln Electric, only two weeks before, had given out bonuses oi $3,821,973, equal to 104% of the annual payroll...