Word: cadillacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe by-pass New York for Midwestern airports-such as the Ferry Command's field just outside Detroit. Captain Wilson's words, and his presence at the Book-Cadillac Hotel, were part of a concerted campaign by Detroit aviation men to dramatize the city's postwar aviation possibilities...
...visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
...side. He developed social graces. He managed to keep a straight face when he was honored in the dining rooms of the Savoy in London, the Crillon in Paris, the Astor in Manhattan, and when he was given quarters in the check room of Detroit's Book Cadillac. Tom Mix used to boast gratefully that Tony had earned him more than any race horse in history. (Earnings of Whirlaway: $511,406; of Tom & Tony...
...most war plants, women are a novelty. The attitude of plant managers ranges all the way from that of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, which wonders why it did not employ women before, to that of Cadillac in Detroit which keeps its first 25 women workers behind a padlocked door. Says an executive: "You know...
...this week many a dealer figured that old-fashioned salesmanship is the best answer to his dilemma. A Manhattan go-getter prettied his showroom with bunting and spring flowers, slapped a huge sign in his window: "Immediate Deliveries-BRAND NEW 1942 Hudsons." Cadillac and Chrysler dealers did likewise. And, like a lawyer with a client, many a dealer will help a customer fight it out with the ration board...