Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas contributed to good Anglo-U.S. relations by bringing a touch of horse opera into Mayfair. A startled horse, ridden by a lady on her way to Rotten Row, began to rear and plunge in front of Douglas' car. Rancher Lew (he owns some wide acres in Arizona) jumped from his car, caught the ornery critter by the bridle, led it to the safety of the bridle path. Then, in true western hero style, he shyly left the scene without even asking the name of the rescued lady...
...wrote a novel [about the Eastons] I know how my first chapter would end. Three minutes after Mrs. Easton answered the phone and gave the right formula . . . the doorbell rang. It was an insurance salesman. He had been passing through Attleboro with his car radio on, listening, of course, to Stop the Music. When he heard the address, he headed for the house. He was Johnny-on-the-spot, the first of an intolerable army of mercenaries. I didn't make up the insuranceman episode. That, too, happened to the Eastons...
George G. Gilbert Jr., president of a Washington plumbing equipment company, wanted a new car-in a hurry. He needed it in his business. How did he get it? A dealer "said he could get me one if I would pay him a commission of $500, which I was glad to do." A few days later, Gilbert drove off in a new 1948 Oldsmobile...
Scores of such under-the-counter deals, which have run new car prices far above list prices, were dragged into the open last week by a House subcommittee in Washington. Detailing their new-car fever, buyers sheepishly told of 1) giving fat bonuses to dealers, 2) trading in old cars for much less than their value, and 3) paying out hundreds of dollars a car for unwanted accessories. To get new cars, four of them passed out "tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from...
...dealers brazenly owned up to their grey marketeering. George E. Adlung, salesman for New York Avenue Motor Co., admitted receiving more than $1,200 in tips on only four sales. William Manuel, a salesman for Kearney, received at least $1,520 in tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade-ins were far less than their value. He resold the cars at profits which averaged a whopping...