Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest reason for lagging K-F sales is price. Competing automakers reckon that the Kaiser and Frazer should sell for around $1,600. But the Kaiser is now up to $2,029 and the Frazer up to $2,220 F.O.B. Detroit. At such figures, car buyers can get a Cadillac, Buick or Chrysler. Apparently many of them have decided to wait until new cars with old names are ready for them...
...reaching the semi-finals of the Michigan State Amateur tourney during the same three years, he went all the way to win in 1939, nosing out Yale-man John Bailey in the final round. With this title tucked away, Barclay turned pro the next year, taking a job at Cadillac, Michigan, for the season...
They arrived five minutes after the hour. As they stepped out, one on each side of the Cadillac limousine, Marshall moved up. He greeted Madame first. "Give my love to your madame," she said, "and come back, come back soon...
Along Detroit's "Sharpers Row," used-car hub of the U.S., prices skidded as much as 40%. In Chicago, a 1941 Cadillac which would have sold for $2,700 a few months ago was on sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from...
That off his chest, "The Man" began to answer specific committee charges in a 13,000-word statement. The Morrissey Cadillac had been a Christmas present ("It's just an old Southern custom...