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...taken prisoner in Korea in 1951, he did not let time hang idle on his hands. In the prison camps, he soon discovered that most of his fellow prisoners had two major topics of conversation: women and autos. Wilkins, who had been a salesman for Detroit's Hanson Chevrolet Co., felt right at home. Every time he met a new prisoner, Wilkins would ask if the prisoner didn't think he might be in the market for a new car after he was freed. Then he would take his name and home address...
Last week Postmaster Summerfield, an old Chevrolet dealer, ordered a quick design change in-the truck on the stamp (happily, no stamps had yet been printed). The new truck: "A composite...
...Melinda." Pink Rose was once the pet name for little Melinda (who was born after her father faded away). Detectives found that the wire, written in a hand completely unlike Mrs. MacLean's, had been filed by a large, heavily rouged woman. A few days later the MacLean Chevrolet was found in Lausanne, at a garage close to the railroad station. A lady calling herself "Mrs. Dunbar" had left it in a great hurry, said the garage attendant. Abandoned on the seat was a child's book-Little Lost Lamb...
...hardest hit was General Electric, a primary producer of the J-47. It will cut its monthly production in half. Packard and Studebaker will stop making J-47s by December. Nash will wind up production of Pratt & Whitney's R-2800 piston engine by May, and Chevrolet will stop making Wright's piston R-3350. Buick will continue making the Wright jet Sapphire only until present shortages are made up; then it will stop production. After the cutbacks go into effect, the only secondary supplier will be Ford, now tooling up to make Pratt & Whitney...
...fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest step of all by adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models. Chevrolet and Pontiac have kept their new looks top secret, but production of the Chevrolet's fiber-glass plastic sports car, the Corvette (160 h.p., 102-in. wheel base, 2,900 Ibs.), will be boosted to thousands...