Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Canada's pulse of production grew weaker. Many of the nation's nail factories and foundries had closed. Shipyards, locomotive works, railroad-car shops were digging deep into their inventories. The manufacture of pipes, sinks, wires, tubs, farm implements was being choked off. Plumbing and housing, both critical bottlenecks, were tighter than ever. Auto production dropped to 5,500 so far this month (v. 20,000 in May). Now Ford and General Motors production lines were crawling. (Chrysler's was shut down because of a strike...
...nearly two miles, Los Angeles' Figueroa Street is lined with used-car lots flying the flamboyant flags of dealers like "Madman" Muntz, "Wildman" Pritchard, and "Honest John." Their zany ads for buying & selling cars delight zany Angelenos. Samples: "Just sound your horn ... we pay by ear," and "I want to give them away but Mrs. Muntz won't let me ... she's crazy...
...after the raid, car prices dropped. A 1942 Cadillac, for which $4,500 had been offered the night before, went begging for $2,750. Said OPA: car prices on Automobile Row were "close to OPA ceilings" for the first time since...
...another result of the raids-part of a nationwide drive-was not so pleasant. One car salesman was grabbed by an OPAster and threatened with a "slapper" (a blackjack-like weapon of thick pieces of leather sewn together-see cut) because OPAsters thought he was trying to get away. He was not actually hit, and was later released. But OPA's new treat-'em-rough tactics, reminiscent of the notorious "prohibition officer" hoodlums of the dry era, were bound to make new enemies...
Automakers' big plans for little cars quietly folded last week. Henry Ford II, who had talked about a new car cheaper than any now on the market, announced that the Ford company had discontinued the division which had been working on the new auto (TIME, Feb. 4 et seq.). General Motors, which had recently set up a new car division in Chevrolet, announced that it too was shelving its plans for the present. It saw no way to get materials for new plants. In short, harassed automakers, up to their cowlicks in production troubles, were too discouraged to take...