Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banking by Car. So that depositors can transact their business from their cars, the Community National Bank of Pontiac, Mich, installed a teller's curbside cage that rises like a freight elevator out of the sidewalk, still leaving room for pedestrians to pass. After banking hours the cage drops back...
Michigan-born Virgil Exner sketched autos in school when he should have been studying Latin, went on to Notre Dame to study art and design. After stints as chief stylist for G.M.'s Pontiac division, and chief styling engineer for Studebaker (at the age of 29), he joined Chrysler at a time when President K. T. Keller, who once snorted at postwar advances as "the Jell-O school of design," was holding fast to Chrysler's ultraconservative styling. Under new President Lester Lum Colbert, Exner set about modernizing Chrysler's line, put the company back...
...Tonawanda, N.Y. plant, will make it about 3 in. to 4 in. lower, 6 in. longer and much more powerful than basic 162-h.p. V-8 on 1957 models. Next year's Chevy chassis will also be lower (though not so ground-hugging as 1957 Plymouth), along with Pontiac will get complete styling overhaul from General Motors...
HILMA BENSON Pontiac, Mich...
...first place, and in hopes of bigger sales, was actually outproducing Chevrolet. In the first two months Ford turned out 286,923 cars, up nearly 48,000 from last year, and some 10,000 ahead of Chevy. Overall, G.M.'s production was 10% under last year. Except for Pontiac and Cadillac, all of its divisions had trimmed production sharply, and G.M. was producing only 47% of the nation's cars v. 53% last year. Automen pointed out that production did not necessarily match sales, and the fact that Ford was outproducing Chevy did not necessarily mean...