Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...industry revealed that it would for the first time appropriate a week for its special pleading: in Manhattan President Alvan Macauley of the Automobile Manufacturers Association announced that all U. S. motorcar makers would join in spending $1,250,000 to make March 5-12 "National Used Car Exchange Week...
About one-third of U. S. motorists have never owned a new car, and for every new car a dealer sells he generally expects to have to handle one and a half to two used cars. When the used car market bogs down, dealers therefore are virtually frozen. Normally there are 500,000 used cars on the market. Last week there were about a million, 800,000 in the hands of the 46,000 new car dealers, the rest in the lots of independent used car dealers. Price cuts of ten to 25% on jalopies (trade parlance for worn...
...seriousness of the situation was indicated by the fact that last week new car output was only 56,677 against 115,360 for the same week last year. It was also indicated by General Motors' announcement of a pay cut of 10% and up for all salaried employes. Some 50,000 people will be affected, saving G. M. nearly $10,000,000 a year. Biggest cut of all was taken by G. M. Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In 1936 G. M. paid him $561,000 ($150,000 salary, $411,000 bonus). At the present rate of earnings...
Kirkland House swimmers en route to Yale were badly shaken up on Saturday afternoon when the car in which they were riding somersaulted on Route 15, 25 miles west of Hartford...