Word: buick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apted Lieutenants was heard to remark, "Say, we better call up the Boss, this is getting high." But he was anticipated by some young gentleman who already had tipped Harvard's riot buster off, and in a few minutes the Colonel himself drove up in his Buick with a squeaking of brakes and hopped out into Mill Street leaving his motor running and crying, "All right you, Break it up, and go Home." This produced magnificent effects and by pushing all the men who lived in Eliot House down toward Dunster and all Winthrop men up toward Adams House...
...Dodge $45, Chrysler sixes $40 to $55, Chrysler airflows $100 to $130. DeSoto was left unchanged. Then Studebaker added $25 to its "Dictator" and "Commander," $50 to its "President." General Motors swung into line with increases of $20 to $30 on Pontiac and Chevrolet, $65 to $130 on Buick, $35 to $65 on Oldsmobile. Cadillac V-16s went up $300, La Salles $100. Hudsons went up $5 to $75, Graham-Paiges $50, except one model. A few independents left their prices unchanged, including Packard and Nash-and Henry Ford...
...workers. Thus did the entire industry court favor with the Administration by payroll increases. Day after this first move, Senator Wagner's National Labor Board opened strike hearings in Washington. The heads of the A. F. of L. automobile union appeared with evidence to prove that Hudson. Buick and Fisher Body had discharged men who joined A. F. of L. unions, had herded workers into company unions. They demanded shop elections under Labor Board auspices for workers to choose their own unions. The Labor Board heard them with much sympathy. Only that morning Senator Wagner had appeared before...
Divorced from Actress Eames (who died in 1930), Sidney Howard married "Polly" Damrosch, daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, in 1931. Two years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
...order to fill in that twenty-nine minutes, after you get through answering Yes or No, you first look the question over and decide what the topic of the question is. For instance; if the question is "Will a Ford go faster than a Buick?" On first appearance that question looks like a natural for a good old "Yes" or a good old "No," but under the Harvard system that isn't the half of it. First you look the question over, and come to the conclusion that the general subject is automobiles. Then you just go ahead...