Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning to more practical affairs, the blank demands, "Have you a car?"; "Would you bring it with you to New York?"; and, getting right down to basic facts, "How much money are you prepared to spend...
...stamped on Maine's plates. South Carolina motorists advertised THE IODINE PRODUCTS STATE. Californians carried the talisman THE GOLDEN STATE. In the New York Legislature the necessary bill was unanimously passed and "World's Fair'' plates were issued. But for a fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked to make peripatetic billboards of their cars to carry free advertising for what is partly private enterprise was to some no more than a high piece of cheekiness; to others it was downright invasion of their constitutional rights...
...Deal phrase means Government-planned. Last week in Detroit three private plans which might interest Friend Bill were announced. By next week Ford Motor Co. hopes to take back about 25,000 River Rouge plant workers. Chrysler Corp. announced it will take back 55.000. Hudson Motor Car Co. announced it will take on 6.000. In two respects Hudson's announcement was the biggest news because i) 6.000 more men will double Hudson's present payroll. 2) the purpose of the increase is to bring out a new low-priced car. It will be called the Hudson 112, will...
...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...
President Knudsen began by reading a statement which revealed that GM's 1937 inventory of $290,000,000 was a new high, that costs rose 13½% per car in 1937, that GM waited until October before raising prices only 87%. He gave a brief history of this year's business...