Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dennett '36, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, revealed yesterday that the P. B. H. Station Wagon which has been employed in social work during the last year is being put up for sale. The reason for the action, Dennett stated, was that legal difficulties arose in registering the car, the University Corporation and P. B. H. both sharing its ownership...
...Considered sponsoring a program of junking jalopies. Last month the automobile industry got together National Used Car Exchange Week. This got rid of some 60,000 used cars, but dealers' lots are still glutted. On Franklin Roosevelt's desk last week lay the results of a Federal survey of dealer opinions on the problem, most of them advocating some sort of scrapping program with Federal funds or sponsorship...
Sympathetic indeed was Franklin Roosevelt to the railroads last week, and hardly a day went by without his active attention to the problem. As the roads gloomily revealed that car-loadings last week were lower than for the same week in 1932 when Depression was at its blackest, the President called a Cabinet meeting where he was reported to have said that he would favor letting the roads go "through the wringer" to reduce top-heavy capitalizations were it not that large insurance companies and banks would suffer greatly. That afternoon he told his press conference that he had decided...
Long-range Proposals: 1) Creation of a three-man Federal Transportation Authority to plan and promote operating economies and speed consolidations, unification of terminal facilities, car and revenue pooling, etc.; 2) methods of correcting railroad financing abuses to be left to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, which is now investigating them; 3) consideration of the desirability of placing all forms of transport under "equal and impartial regulation of a single agency of Government...
...where the smile is false and automatic, sometimes in drooping shoulder or eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world and the photographers have noted madam's attire...