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...jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed in time that the Gimo was on his way, had rushed to the airport too late to greet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hao, Hao | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...week's end Chrysler Corp., although it will have no public showings for seven weeks, held a press preview in Detroit of its 1949 Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and Plymouth. (On the eve of the preview, Ford slyly held a party of its own. It had no new models to show; it just thought it a good time to entertain the press, and perhaps take the edge off Chrysler's party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...metal station wagon that sleeps two, and a Dodge roadster with manual top and old-fashioned detachable plastic side curtains. With no frills or extras, it would be the cheapest Dodge. Chrysler had simplified its automatic fluid drive transmission, dubbed it Gyromatic, and made it regular equipment on DeSoto and Chrysler, optional on Dodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Getchell Partner John Veneroff Tarleton has become Picture's editor, Remie Lohse its head cameraman. Lest Getchell clients like Chrysler, DeSoto, Plymouth, Kelly-Springfield or Seagram's fear that he is neglecting his $8,000,000-a-year agency for the new magazine, Publisher Getchell wants it known that every bit of work he has or will put in on Picture comes at night and over the weekends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Getchell's Picture | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...sleek, white DeSoto sporting a uniformed driver, a neatly lettered legend "Cambridge Protective Patrol," and an attractive young feminine occupant--has caused considerable speculation around the Square lately. Some had it that the Police Department was undergoing extensive modernization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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