Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks and Cadillacs were more redesigned (in order to conserve scarce materials) than the trade had expected. Pontiac front fenders extend almost to the rear doors; all G.M. cars have sweeping fenders, concealed running boards...
...Wendell Willkie's campaign tour: 1. At Los Angeles he was hailed by one of the largest political gatherings in history. 2. At San Francisco he said Roosevelt dynamited the 1933 London Economic Conference. 3. At Portland, Ore. he endorsed Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams. 4. At Pontiac, Mich. he was hit by a ripe tomato. 5. At Coffeyville he wrote "No Third Term-Wendell Willkie...
...Pontiac, Mich., young men in dirty overalls began to show Wendell Willkie the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's political muscles. They came out of automotive and machine-tool plants to boo and Bronx-cheer. Pontiac-typically Midwest, a small town with a one-street business district-had just gone to work at 9 a.m. when the Willkie motor caravan passed through, with the bareheaded candidate waving from an open car, cameramen standing smoking in a truck, a score of shiny 1941 model cars stuffed with aides, newsmen and political small fry. Near the railroad tracks, a half-dozen blocks...
Women and overalled children fringed the parade route, skittering along the sidewalks behind the posted American Legionnaires, who wore their monkey-caps and their one hour's importance solemnly. From the sidewalks came an occasional "hurray!" From the factories, from the men of Pontiac, came boos, hisses...
...Pontiac eights will cost only $25 more than sixes this year. Because 1940 Torpedoes clicked so well, all '41s will be Torpedoes. Bigger windshields, improved brake drums, interior safety lights...