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The overflow crowd of 1,200 at last week's meeting of Detroit's Economic Club was thoroughly and impressively big business. Throughout the jampacked ballroom in the Veterans' Memorial Building sat many of Detroit's leading bankers, stock-and-bond men and captains of industry, including a solid phalanx from the automotive world: Chrysler Chairman L. L. ("Tex") Colbert, American Motors President George Romney, Edward N. Cole, general manager of General Motors' Chevrolet Division, and scores of others. From dozens of clear Havana cigars, as from the stacks of busy factories, smoke drifted ceilingward.
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