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...executives really expect wives to conform to any stereo. typed image. Said Joseph E. Adams, vice president of White Motor Co.: "Consider the nation's top executives. How many of them would have been hired if wives had been a factor in the selection? Some men need a psychiatrist at home who will listen to their problems. Others need frivolous wives to distract them. Some need wives who are prominent in civic activities, some not. You can't type a wife...
Along the rest of "Motor Mile" on Commonwealth Avenue, all the other brands were celebrating Washington's birthday. Chevrolet dealers wore red boutonnieres and were offering a television set as a prize to some lucky customer. Plymouth featured an impressive lineup of pushbutton drive, oriflow shock absorbers, and wind tunnel tested air fins. Perhaps not first in war or first in peace, it claimed to be first in the low-priced three...
STOCK CONTROL of Britain's automaking Standard Motor Co. has been quietly bought for $4,900,000 by Canada's farm equipment giant, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., which may turn Standard into Europe's biggest farm-machinery producer. Besides its Standard, Vanguard and Triumph cars, Standard is producing 100,000 Ferguson tractors annually under license deal. Massey holds 18½% of Standard stock, the biggest bloc...
...Detroit the Institute of Arts has on display its newest (and sixth) Rembrandt, the small (8½ by 6½ in.) A Woman Weeping, donated by Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., and his wife. Last year Mrs. Ford spotted the small Rembrandt in Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel Inc., felt that it was "one of the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen." The Fords decided to buy it, paid an estimated $50,000, and made it their first gift to the Detroit museum...
...Allis Chalmers' 25-ton, 280-h.p. motor scraper, with top capacity of 20 cu. yds. Its business end is shaped like a garden shovel...