Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equipment ranging from sleek little package cars to 30-ton double-trailer trucks, 58-passenger busses, and mobile airport units, indicated the range of utility covered by the U. S. trucking industry, which gives employment to more than 3,000,000, pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter...
...musical pictures, Hard to Get contains only two songs, for elaborate orchestration substitutes a use of acrophobia unsurpassed since Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. Good sequence: Arthur Housman, ablest rival to Robert Benchley in the cinematic portrayal of amiable intoxication, trying to stand up in a crowded subway car...
...Ford Motor Co. for certain financing practices had been ended by consent decrees. In these decrees Ford and Chrysler not only agreed to refrain from coercing dealers to finance car sales through finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler-they also agreed to stop advertising their affiliated finance companies exclusively. This gave Thurman Arnold his cue. Said he: "Monopoly is fostered when advertising is used to put competitors at a disadvantage for the sole reason that they do not have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers...
This warning was echoed later last week in Chicago when Mr. Arnold's Executive Assistant Wendell Berge addressed the American Finance Conference. This association of independent finance companies got the Government into its finance company suits by charging that 75% of new car financing had been grabbed through coercive means by the four big companies owned or tied up with automobile companies.* At their annual convention in Chicago last week, members of the Conference heard Lawyer Berge discuss at length the theory of consent decrees as a justifiable compromise in the public interest and declare that advertising "probably cannot...
...publisher, Laughlin brought out well-printed books of obscure verse by Dudley Fitts, Kay Boyle, essays by Yvor Winters, a novel, White Mule, by William Carlos Williams, three anthologies of new writing. Loading his car with copies of his books, he sells them himself, arguing with hard-boiled booksellers from Manhattan to Detroit, who almost unanimously urge him to get out of the book business. Books are merchandise, they say, which clearly rules out New Directions publications...