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...John Bugmire, general manager of Atlanta's Nalley Chevrolet. "This shortage hurts badly." Pontiac Dealer A. E. England of Hollywood, Calif, said that "You can't firm an order when you haven't got a model to show," and Irving Esserman of Chicago's Esserman Motor Sales, a large Chrysler-Plymouth dealer, said flatly that "We're being strangled by the shortage of cars. We can't make delivery commitments, and we're losing business...
...Ford Motor Co. scheduled a 6% rise for this week over last. Ford also started production of its new Galaxie (TIME, July 28), dreamed up last spring after Ford got a worried look at smuggled sketches of the 1959 Chevrolet. Rushed into production to compete with the Chevrolet Impala, the Galaxie series of six models has an elongated Thunderbird roof set on a Fairlane 500 body, lists at $2,303 to $2,591. Sight unseen, Ford's new car has already drawn 65,000 orders from dealers...
Even Japan is hustling to get into the race. Though the industry produced only 42,597 passenger cars last year, automakers plan big things. Toyota Motor Co., which makes a sturdy Toyopet sedan (30 miles per gal.) for $2,222, has shipped 800 cars so far this year, including 150 to Hawaii. Japan's other major producer, Nissan Motor Co., with a smaller Datsun sedan (40 miles per gal.) for $1,762, has sent out another 800 to Hawaii and the West Coast. The reception was so enthusiastic that the two companies see a U.S. market of 500 cars...
Produced by Graham's Private Enterprise, Inc. and sponsored by Ford Motor Co., the show will hear from three contestants a week for three weeks, pick three of them for a fourth program where the winner will get backing up to $25,000. As with small businessmen it has backed abroad, Graham's P.E.I, will split profits fifty-fifty with the winners until they are ready to buy out its share. Graham has already received nearly 300 applications touting everything from a futuristic garage to a fancy vanity tray, is having applicants screened by Wichita's Fourth...
...memorial fund has been established for Eleanor R. Voss, the third-year law student who was killed last Thursday when her motor scooter collided with a taxi...