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...Colbert felt that buyers are not yet as enthusiastic as the industry would like. Said he: "People still show some tendency to wait for further signs of recovery before taking on new obligations." To loosen consumer purse strings, Chrysler spent $150 million to face-lift its cars, installed a swivel front seat in many models to make it easier...
...Chicago one day last week, James Caesar Petrillo, 66, called in the press. He scurried nimbly behind the gleaming 8-ft. walnut desk (''the biggest damn desk I could find at Marshall Field's"), flung himself down in the swivel chair and surveyed the crowded office with snapping blue eyes. "You gotta fight like hell to get up." he said, "then it's goddam tough...
...swivel-necked softball fans saw a faster, flashier brand of ball than many a big-league booster has seen all season. The slow, playground pastime of Depression days has speeded into an organized sport of fierce and popular competition. There is nothing soft about it; even the big, hand-filling softball itself is hard as a regulation baseball...
...year presidency of the American Petroleum Institute- he stuck with the estate, expanding it steadily. In late 1952, on the advice of Texas' then-Governor Allan Shivers, Dwight Eisenhower nominated Anderson as Navy Secretary. Never before aboard an ocean-going vessel, Anderson navigated the Navy expertly from his swivel chair. Item: with rare courage he reversed the decision of senior Navy brass, recommended the promotion of passed-over Captain Hyman G. Rickover, able "father" of the atomic submarine, to rear admiral. He succeeded Roger M. Kyes as Deputy Defense Secretary in May 1954. Sitting in for Defense Secretary Charles...
...Swivel Liberties. In Santa Fe, N.Mex., the state senate passed a bill making it unlawful to make false statements to a peace officer, despite Senator Earl Parker's objection that the bill "strikes to the very foundation of human rights. I say you should have the right to lie to whomever you please...