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Nash and Hudson were planning to produce 1947 models early next year and completely new 1948 models some time next fall. Ford was considering skipping 1947 models entirely and bringing out a 1948 model late next year. Packard already had the dies for a 1948 model, "new from the tires up," planned to introduce it early next fall. Studebaker, now producing the first real postwar car, planned to continue making it until 1948 or later. Chrysler, which had carefully labeled its present models "postwar automobiles" instead of 1946 models, had nothing further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Postwar Postponed | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Bright & early one day last week a black Packard limousine with a U.S. crest on the door hummed through the maddening boulevard traffic of central Buenos Aires. As it passed, police snapped respectfully to attention. In the Plaza San Martin, where flowers were in bloom, the car came to a decorous halt before the rococo Argentine Foreign Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Career Man's Mission | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Bones in the Cinders. Police learned that Evelyn had borrowed a Packard sedan from a garage proprietor on that day, had returned it later with the front seat covered with blood. In the car, police found John Dick's blue sweater. Out in the back yard of her home, police found bits of human bones mixed with some cinders from the furnace. In her attic, encased in cement in an old suitcase, was the partly mummified body of a baby boy. So the police asked Evelyn some questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: The Dick Affair | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Bachelors of Science: Edward John Hartmann, Cornelius Joseph Hogan, William Andrew Jaracz, Martin Seymour Kapp, Frank Champion Keegan Jr., George Archibald Kelser Jr., Alden Packard Peterson, Robert Gildersleeve Rhoades, Samuel Bernard Sheldon, Edmund Rudolf Wyder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Degrees Approved for 293 Graduating Students Here | 10/18/1946 | See Source »

...sure when the workers would be rehired. Said Briggs: perhaps January, perhaps not till April. The industry had hoped to turn out 500,000 cars in October. Instead, Ward's automotive reports estimated that production would now be only 356,000, down to where it was in August. Packard Sales Manager Lyman W. Slack gloomily predicted: "The average person simply will not be able to buy a car until well into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Payment Deferred | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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