Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pontiac introduces a new Torpedo eight this year to pep up its design, has restyled its Special six series with longer, lower hoods. Prices...
Last week in Cleveland, Detroit and Pontiac, Mich., striking General Motors autoworkers fought police and non-strikers, together with their foes counted upwards of 100 casualties (but no dead). Meantime, in conference rooms at Detroit, the war was fought and at last ended by G. M.'s massive President William S. Knudsen, C. I. O.'s tiny Walter Reuther...
...brilliant if febrile artist, Siqueiros has the distinction of having discovered the modern paint gun as an artistic implement. In 1923, when Pontiac, Mich, produced the first automobile (an Oakland) ever finished by being sprayed with quick-drying lacquer, the spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...
JANE SCOULLER Pontiac...