GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 24, 1958

GOODS & SERVICES

The Superba. Checker Motors Corp., makers of Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range.

Telegraphed Gifts. More than 2,000 U.S. drugstores have signed up with Gifts By Wire, Inc. of Delray Beach, Fla. in a new national gift-sending...

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