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Died. General André Georges Corap 75, whose French Ninth Army was annihilated in the decisive 1940 German breakthrough near Sedan; at Fontainebleau, near Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1953 | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...general landlord for all other agencies, Mansure has cracked down on wasteful habits all over Washington. By installing a motor pool, he cut the number of cars used by his own agency from 36 to eight. He also persuaded Small Business Administrator William Mitchell, who rates a $1,400 sedan, to use a $365 secondhand Mercury instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Good Housekeeper | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

...sprawling plant in Wolfsburg, Germany, one day this month, workers tightened the last bolts on a beetle-like sedan, and rolled it off the production line. It was the 500,000th Volkswagen to be produced since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 500,000 Beetles | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...evening last week, a black Chrysler Imperial sedan rolled up in front of a motel in Decatur, Ill. The driver, a middle-size, friendly sort of fellow, and his wife checked in quietly, but a reporter was soon on their trail. Even the cost of their dinner ($1.72 for two) and the size of the tip (35?) were carefully noted. Harry Truman granted that he and Bess were not having much luck traveling "incognito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Missouri Traveler | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

Hammer in hand, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement stepped up to a microphone in Nashville's War Memorial Square one morning last week, and loosed a brisk spiel about the merits of a 1951 Buick sedan. No man to shun the public eye or ear, youthful (32) Governor Clement-who is considered likely to run against Estes Kefauver for the senatorial nomination next year-was lending his oratorical flair to the auction of 44 state-owned automobiles. Reason: during his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last summer, Lawyer Clement had pointed a shaming finger at the well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Action by Auction | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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