Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highlights in the program, will be Louis De Flores, World Champion Paper Strafer, who will given an exhibition of his art, and Frank Hawks, renowned pilot will demonstrate the new Gwinn Air Car which is an airplane with controls like an automobile...
Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...
...average of 117.200 m.p.h., which broke the record of 113.580 set by Shaw last year; before a crowd of 150,000; at Indianapolis. Of the 33 drivers who started, only 13 finished. One, Emil Andres of Chicago, wound up in a hospital after his car turned over three times and one of its wheels flew into the infield, killing a spectator perched atop a truck...
...Government's case against the auto-firms was briefly this: Half of all automobile sales, new and old, are made on terms. The Big Four finance companies handle an easy 70% of the new-car business. Also in the field are some 500 independents. Most auto dealers are on contracts with the factories; the factories, complained the independents,* could threaten to cancel the contracts unless dealers had their installment paper financed through their affiliated finance companies...
Prime fact about the used-car business is that a used car is rarely sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...