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Auto designer Ruth Glennie in 1955: "I didn't know anything in particular about cars. I had a car, and that was about it." (GM CORP.)
JL
By:
JAMIE LAREAU
October 31, 2011 05:00 AM

In 1955, Ruth Glennie left Boston to drive to Detroit for a job almost unheard of for a woman at the time: designing cars for General Motors.

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