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Leading the sales field (with 45%-50% of the market) was General Motors, whose dealers had delivered 454,471 cars by Feb. 20. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division reported that in one ten-day period of February its dealers sold 8,806 Mercurys, well above any similar period in the division's history. Chrysler sales were running upwards of 70% over last year. To keep up with the increasing demand, Chrysler will expand further. President Lester Lum (Tex) Colbert announced that Chrysler will build an 800,000-sq. ft. automatic-transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., have...
...that: 1) housing had not materialized; 2) the consumer-goods program had failed; 3) there was a nationwide food shortage. There were some other failures he did not have to point up: the first suggestion of relaxed control had been followed by the East German riots and by a ten-day strike of slave laborers in the Vorkuta prison camps. Attempts at "honest art," e.g., Novelist Ehrenburg's The Thaw, merely confused Soviet writers accustomed to writing propaganda, including Ehrenburg himself, and honesty in art was incomprehensible to painters of the approved anecdote...
...reason for the boost in steelmaking was heavy orders from the automakers. The nationwide rush to buy new cars was the biggest in years. General Motors' sales for the first ten days of December were higher than any other ten-day sales in the company's history. To keep up with its customers' demands, Ford set a new production record of 6,058 cars a day, and Chrysler Corp. has already received some 450,000 orders. For all automakers the week's production hit 172,249, highest figure in 19 months...
Revolving Door. After a great deal of rushing about and whispering, Majority Leader Knowland made a motion for a ten-day adjournment to give McCarthy time enough to recover. Some Democrats protested that the long delay was not necessary; they viewed it as a trick to delay censure action until the Democratic 84th Congress takes over. Oregon's Wayne Morse told how he had made nine speeches in 1951 with his broken jaw still wired. New York's Lehman told how he had campaigned with a fractured leg. Finally, however, Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen spoke...
...When the ten-day adjournment was finally voted, the pro-McCarthy Republican Senators could scarcely conceal their delight. Ev Dirksen unintentionally explained why. Leaving the floor, he was asked by newsmen if some sort of filibuster was in prospect. Dirksen seemed shocked. "Goodness me, no," he replied. "Nothing could be further from the fact, that I'm trying to prevent a vote. Time is always a great healer, its soothing effect brings peace of mind." Then he paused, and added: "I don't know whether a vote can be reached...