Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Show. The crowds at the Waldorf would eye the Cadillacs, perhaps with envy, but what they really went to see were the cars they could buy. Here there were some touches of splendor...
Four for Four. This week, with every gilded chassis and every cutaway transmission in place, G.M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson and his four executive vice presidents would stand atop a marble staircase at the Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases...
...week's end Chrysler Corp., although it will have no public showings for seven weeks, held a press preview in Detroit of its 1949 Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth. (On the eve of the preview, Ford slyly held a party of its own. It had no new models to show; it just thought it a good time to entertain the press, and perhaps take the edge off Chrysler's party...
...walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because he's got rhythm in his soul." Then, admiringly, Wilson stepped up and told...
...utmost difficulty in evoking a clear picture of feminine psychology in his writing. Elias' biography shows in part why. When he first became interested in girls, the baker's daughter cordially offered "to show him the mysteries which he had hitherto dared only to dream about." At another point, when he was worried about his sexual adequacy, a college girl enticed him into intimate relations. In the depths of his despair and humiliation women suddenly appeared from nowhere-they were his for the asking, and no one he had the courage to approach seems to have refused...