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...were allocated to dealers on a quota basis. Until a few months ago, a dealer still had to take his quota, whether or not he could sell all the cars, or face loss of his franchise. Automakers have belatedly realized that the quota system often forced a dealer to bootleg cars to stay in business, have now relaxed it. Manufacturers have also finally realized that the chief source of the trouble is too many cars. They now plan to cut output to an average of 415,000 cars a month for the rest of the year, compared to an average...
...team, which attracted more members of the College in the winter term than any other, again sent its best players Northward ostensibly to compete in the Canadian Championships. The preceding winter, one of the Crimson players had won the tournament, but his main objective in competing had been to bootleg whiskey back across the line into the country...
...just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week. Then Layman Howard Edward Butt Jr., 26, preached a sermon on one of his favorite themes: Christians must have the dedication to their cause that Communists have for theirs. His listeners liked it so well that they asked him to come back next August and preach an eight-day revival...
...BOOTLEG sales of new 1954 cars at cut-rate prices to used-car dealers is becoming a serious problem. Both Ford and General Motors have sent letters to their 26,200 dealers warning that any dealer caught selling new automobiles below the list price may lose his franchise...
Many a teacher secretly rebels, "bootlegs" reading early in the first grade (which is not yet considered ready to begin it) and script writing in the second grade simply because she feels it is her duty to the children. Others "bootleg" hard, oldfashioned, rigid authoritarianism and rule their charges with threats and fear. A great majority, however, conscientiously try to bring understanding and sympathy to their classrooms...