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Word: pontiac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, De Soto dealers 238%. Packard sales for September were at the highest monthly level in more than two years. Hupp reported a production gain for the fifth consecutive month. General Motors reported that Buick's September sales were 1,400 units above the previous year, Pontiac's 5,000, Chevrolet's 38,000. Combining the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sales organizations had not only bolstered dealers but increased those cars' percentage of the business in their price classes as follows: Buick, from 38% to 60%; Oldsmobile, 14.6% to 27.3% ; Pontiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Downtown | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...Plans were made last week to move most of the White House office staff to Poughkeepsie, N. Y. for August when President Roosevelt takes the rest of his vacation at nearby Hyde Park. Around his estate the President will drive not a General Motors' Pontiac roadster, as reported, but a Chrysler-built De Soto. A "special job," this roadster was so contrived that it may be entirely operated by hand. Before his election Mr. Roosevelt had a Ford roadster equipped with hand gadgets for brake and clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Hot Oil | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...General Motors built for and last week delivered to President Roosevelt a Pontiac roadster entirely operable by hand, which will carry the President about his Hyde Park estate when he goes there the end of this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jul. 17, 1933 | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Engineers to the Fore | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Over $500 De Soto 6 695 Pontiac 8 585 Uodge 6 595 Rockne 6 585 Essex 8 645 Willys 6 595 Xash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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