Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with lending a motorcycle to an unlicensed driver, proved she didn't own one, 2) Helen Porreca, accused of illegal parking at a certain address, proved there was no such street, 3) Edward Gishen, also up for illegal parking, proved that he was out of town with his car at the time, 4) Timothy Credan and William J. Leahan Jr., charged with passing stop lights, proved there were no such lights...
From each car came five men. Said one of them to the bank porter: "These gentlemen are going in the bank and you are going with us. Don't draw your gun or the gentleman behind you will riddle...
...Shakeup. Ford also denied the possibility of a slump: "How can you be pricing yourself out of the market when your car is selling in used-car lots at a premium of from $500 to $1,000?" But Ford's own figures showed that each new price boost caused a significant shakeup in orders-with prospective Lincoln buyers shifting to Mercurys, Mercury prospects to Fords, Ford customers to used cars...
Some used-car dealers were already beginning to feel a slump. Swamped by offers of new cars (many from owners who could not keep up the payments), Rochester (N.Y.) lots were buying cars for $100 to $300 less than a month ago, despite new markups at the factories. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, center of the used-car market, one dealer offered a month-old Lincoln coupé, which he bought for $3,559, for $3,350-with no takers...
...Except the six-cylinder business coupé, which was reduced $5 to bring it $2 below Chevrolet's comparable model, thereby giving Ford the chance to crow that it had the lowest-priced car put out by the "Big Three...