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Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: No Thanks | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...Face of Reality. In Pontiac, Ill., the junior chamber of commerce voted to quit picking a queen for its annual Summer Threshermen's Reunion because "the local talent has been exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1952 | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

World News (weekdays, 7 p.m., ABCTV) has one considerable asset in Newsman John Daly. The newsreel clips and illustrated charts are better-timed and briefer than on most TV news shows, and the commercials, for Sponsor Pontiac, make only one interruption in the middle of the newscast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The New Shows | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...Exemption. In Mount Vernon, Ind., after reading an advertisement offering $10 off the price of a used car for each child of the purchaser, Typesetter Wilfred Clark picked out a $100 Pontiac, marched his ten children past the dealer, drove away with a bill of sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. His most startling statistic: the 46 executive departments of the U.S. Government (not including Defense) operate 19,888 passenger cars, hire 1,380 full-time and 5,672 part-time chauffeurs. Commented Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson (who owns his own Pontiac, no chauffeur): "All the Senators are getting embarrassed by the number of large chauffeur-driven cars that pass them on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Statistic of the Week | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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