Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rinconada, Spain, what sounded like a low-flying plane sent Jose Megia, 13, running out from family dinner to peer skyward. He saw an arrow of dense smoke headed straight for his house. He screamed. Father Megia ran out, was bowled over by a powerful down-thrust of air. Mother Megia ran out, dragging a mattress. Jose Megia smelled sulphur, heard one sharp detonation, saw his home burn up. Patiently the Megia family sat down on the mattress...
...speculative accounts which have been a major source of income to so many stock jobbers. By increasing the technicalities and narrowing the field and its allure, it will cause the business as a whole to simulate the present investment council houses. In other words, it means that the arrow-collar bond-salesman who carried his trade to Westchester weekends and Long Island country clubs has had his day. The brokers of tomorrow will be soberer, saner, sounder business men by necessity...
...Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates set the stage for Pierce-Arrow...
Cars for the Classes. If cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special fully streamlined model called "Silver Arrow." This year nearly all Pierce-Arrows are Silver Arrows-in varying degrees. In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional...
Streamline. Last year Fierce-Arrow startled the automobile world by exhibit ing a streamlined car, the Silver Arrow, at the automobile show. Only five were specially manufactured. This year the Silver Arrow will be a production job. But Pierce Arrow, a high priced car, has necessarily a high priced, therefore a largely conservative market. This year will see automobile companies making three kinds of cars, the standard traditional type, the semi-streamline, and the streamline which is the gamble of Chrysler & Foy. Chrysler is not taking this gamble with his big volume makes Plymouth and Dodge, for the results...