Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, the President strolled leisurely over to the First Baptist Church at 16th and O Streets, enjoying the 15-minute walk in the bright morning sunshine. The sermon topic: "America's Peril." In the cool of the evening he drove to the Lincoln Memorial in an open touring car, heard the National Symphony Orchestra play a presidential request number (Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik) from a barge anchored in the Potomac...
Dark Spots. Detroit's automakers, still in low gear, turned out only 47,000 cars and trucks last week. This week, output should increase and next week jump, thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers...
This week Iturbi is auditioning musicians, 40 at a time, for his new 96-piece Iturbi Symphony Orchestra which he will take on tour this summer. He will conduct from the keyboard while playing Liszt and Beethoven concertos. The Iturbi orchestra will fill six Pullman cars, a baggage car and a private car. Said Iturbi: "Details are carried out by my managers. I'm just interested in the idea . . . I'm not interested in the difficulties...
What was shocking was the grey market in cars, which had spawned tricks to put U.S. black marketeers to shame. With British car production in low gear and demand in high, many a London dealer was openly selling 1946 models at double the Government ceiling price. The prices were legal because Government ceilings apply only to new cars, and dealers found it easy to convert a new car into a secondhand one. As a Piccadilly salesman explained: "You only have to take a new car out and let the balmy summer breezes play over it a while and there...
What often does the trick is a quick sale, a quick repurchase by the dealer. But "used" 1946 models were so profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth...