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...owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...
...said he hoped to "allay" the "fear and hysteria of these times." Asked if he planned to write a book, he replied: "I certainly intend to do some writing." A box wrapped in Manila paper, said to contain Hiss's notes and papers, was loaded into a red Chevrolet convertible. Then, with his family and two lawyers, Hiss drove off in the red convertible to freedom...
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...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...
...Ford this week will show off its 1955 entries in the race for first place in the auto industry. The new Fords are lower and longer-looking, with a V-shaped chrome strip on the sides, visored headlights, wrap-around windshields and sporty, latticework grilles. To keep up with Chevrolet's new V-8 engine, Ford has boosted its own V-8's horsepower from 130 to 162, with optional carburetors and dual exhausts to push it to 182. All cars will come equipped with tubeless tires. The new paint combinations are dazzling, e.g., a white and lavender...