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...same all over the U.S. Along Detroit's Livernois Avenue, the used-car center of the Midwest, buyers were scarce. Bert Baker, one of the biggest U.S. independent dealers in the business, had gone $96,000 into the red since November and his huge lot looked empty. He had only 110 cars on display v. nearly 400 in November. Like other dealers, Bert had been unloading his stock as fast as he could, even at a loss. He had cut his payroll from 161 to 31; even so, his men had time, as well as cars, on their hands...
...Dallas' Ross Avenue, Dealer Gene Goss ("Goss on Ross, the Tradin' Hoss") was just as idle. In San Francisco, "Horse Trader" Ed Shapiro, the city's biggest used-car dealer, was singing the blues. He had cut the price of an "almost new" 1948 Buick convertible, which he bought six months ago, from $3,295 to $2,395-and he still had it. Not long ago he sold "new-used" Packards for $200 above list price; now he is getting $800 below list. Among 1949 cars, only the Chevrolet still commanded a premium (about $300) over list...
...train swung 188 miles up the Mississippi to the sleepy, picturesque town of Louisiana, Mo. There the passengers witnessed the dedication of two plants, developed by the Bureau of Mines at a cost of $15 million, to convert coal into oil. This was the biggest step the U.S. had yet taken to create a synthetic oil industry against the possibility of war or of exhaustion of petroleum reserves...
Miracle of the Seed. Farmer Pfister (rhymes with Easter) is the biggest U.S. individual grower of hybrid seed corn. This year his six-year-old Pfister Hybrid Corn Co. will gross about $1,500,000, net some $60,000 to $70,000, which Lester...
...five biggest U.S. producers of hybrid seed corn: De Kalb (Ill.) Agricultural Association Inc.; Pfister Associated Growers Inc. (which Pfister started and later left); Henry Wallace's Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. of Grimes, Iowa; Edward J. Funk & Sons of Kentland, Ind.; Pfister Hybrid Corn...