Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...item in any radio salesroom this week is a natty, luggage-style, portable radio that runs on batteries, needs no wall plug or aerial outlet, can be toted squawking along in a car, a canoe, on a bicycle. With 200,000 of these already sold since their introduction last autumn by Philco, 28 manufacturers who now make them hope to sell some 500,000 more this season at prices ranging from...
Last week frightened steelmen could not help recalling the story of a week last autumn. When steelmen returned jauntily from 1938 Labor Day weekends, they were confident that no more dreary months of 25% and 30% operations lay ahead-October would start the 1939 auto model year off with a bang. Soon all steel-peddling haunts buzzed with reports that auto production schedules called for 1,000.000 1939 cars by year's end. At a ton of steel per car, Detroit would have to buy 1,000,000 tons. Buick had just bought 35,000 tons. Ford was shopping...
...having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign Commissar, omitted the usual mention of Mme Litvinoff...
Most popular foreign democratic statesman in Germany since last September has been British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. To many Germans who suddenly realized last autumn that war was very close, Mr. Chamberlain appeared as a hero who flew to Germany (three times) bringing much-desired peace. Two popular German picture post cards after the crisis showed Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler together, one before the Dreesen Hotel in Godesberg, the other with the ruins of Godesburg Castle in the background...
...Although next autumn's annual Auto Show-has already been moved forward a month, to October, to motor makers all-summer shut downs seem unavoidable and they are tempted to beat the gun on each other by putting 1940 models on the streets as early as July. This would not be good news to industry's toolmakers, for such premature previews would pay dividends to manufacturers who spent least time (and money) on getting new machinery for the new models...