Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its low-slung, "step-down" car, Hudson Motor Car Co. had been competing with Buick, Oldsmobile and De Soto. This week, Hudson unveiled a smaller, cheaper car to compete with Pontiac and Dodge. The new Pacemaker looks like current Hudsons, but has a shorter wheelbase (119 in. v. the Super-Six's 124), a shorter hood, smaller engine (112 h.p., six-cylinder), and a lower ($240 to $265) price. It ranges from $1,675 f.o.b. Detroit for the three-passenger coupé to $1,795 for the four-door sedan...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
...Criminal Mind. In Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Opal E. Caughell told police, that when the burglar who entered her house was assured that she had no money, he settled for a ham sandwich. In Kansas City, Mo., police were looking for a youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...
...Sedan. As the manhunt shifted to the south, the cops got another clue -their quarry had walked calmly into a Jacksonville automobile agency, bought a new Pontiac sedan, registered it under the name of Robert Franklin, and vanished again...
Collisson had traveled thousands of miles around Western Germany, driving his own Pontiac or catching a sleeper, to tell large groups of Germans exactly what the Marshall Plan is-and is not. With an interpreter at his shoulder, he had spoken to chambers of commerce and trade unionists. His booming voice had carried sincerity and conviction. His audiences had invariably become so interested that they stayed to shoot questions at him for an hour or two after a speech, and hurried away like salesmen after a pep talk...