Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VOLKSWAGEN'S MILLIONTH, rhinestone-studded and gold-painted for the occasion, rolled off the assembly line last week. Supplying more than 40% of the German market already, the biggest German automaker will boost production another 20%, to 1,500 cars daily, to meet a growing demand both at home and abroad. Target for 1955 in the U.S.: 25,000 Volkswagens...
Detroit last week gave the nation a graphic picture of just how fast the 1955 boom is accelerating: the three millionth passenger car rolled off the assembly lines. In the industry's previous peak year (1950) No. 3,000,000 was not turned out until late June. At this rate, said General Motors Chief Harlow Curtice, 1955 "could well be the biggest passenger-car year in the history of the automotive industry." GM reported that April was the best month, and 1955's first four months were the best for production and sales of new and used autos...
...Just a Chevvy," dreamed one young man as he elbowed his way toward the solid gold Chevrolet display, which commemorated G.M.'s fifty millionth vehicle. Meanwhile, another worshipper who already owned one of the fifty million asked the way to the Oldsmobile exhibit, and a man who had driven to the show in an Olds spent his time in the Cadillac section of the hall. He couldn't take his eyes off the $15,000 model. One was crmine-lined; another had a television set, telephone, and tape recorder in the back seat. The man was so absorbed...
Behind a gold-painted locomotive, a trainload of G.M. brass rolled into Flint, Mich, last week to celebrate the production of G.M.'s 50 millionth car. While G.M. President Harlow Curtice looked on, a gold-plated Chevrolet rolled off the assembly line. At lavish luncheons in 52 hotels scattered through the U.S., and in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, another 15,000 invited guests watched the festivities over the most extensive closed-circuit TV network ever rigged...
...great occasion. "Red" Curtice predicted a 10% rise in the auto industry's output next year (to 5,800,000 cars). By 1970, he said, G.M. would produce its 100 millionth car. The party was just as big an occasion for another company: Manhattan's Theatre Network Television, Inc. (T.N.T.), which assembled the private TV circuit. It was T.N.T.'s 75th big-screen production...