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His day begins at breakfast with his economist wife in their modest, government-owned home on the Venusburg overlooking Bonn. Heading for his Bonn headquarters, he dictates speeches as he rides, often stops off at a local market to check prices personally. As the Mercedes 300 lurches up to the...
The German export drive has devastated competitors. Says French Engineer Gaston Duverger: "All over the world German salesmen are walking circles around us." In Iran practically all buses running are now Mercedes-Benzes. Two of Baghdad's proud new bridges are German-built, as is the new one across...
Workers are switching from motorcycles (sales fell 67% below 1952) to cars (up 270% in five years). They are eating so well again that in new cinemas, carpenters had to build the seats a couple of inches wider. People are buying 75% more refrigerators than in 1953; washing-machine sales...
Springs & Shovels. As for Studebaker-Packard, whose market share is only 1.1% this year, it will still compete model-for-model with Big Three. From the austere, stripped-down Studebaker Scotsman ($1,796) to the handsome, expensive (up to $12,000) Mercedes-Benz line that it distributes in the U.S...
Jorge got the news at a luxury-lined private hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble. It seemed to effect a miraculous cure. Jorge leaped out of bed and into his Mercedes-Benz, announced that the first thing he and his friends planned to do was board a...