Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero Laurent was finally overpowered, ejected, whisked home in a car. His wife spent the night putting compresses on his contused head. Next day, when the peacemaking major called the embassy to apologize, Bogomolov, unscathed, was still shaking with laughter. "Wasn't it fun, though?" he guffawed. "That dear old vodka...
Along the road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...
...used car trade, a boomtown bonanza since 1945, was settling back into being just a business. And for the moment, at least, business was not very good. Since the first of the year, used car prices have fallen between 10 and 20%. Last week, even with lower prices, most used car lots were jammed with bright, shiny secondhand jobs, and sales were pretty much at a standstill...
Cash-Paying Dealers. The squeeze was also on in medium-and low-priced models. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, used car center of the U.S., almost all makes of '47 cars were tagged at less than their original price.* In depressing contrast, Kaisers and Frazers (see below) were down $1,000 from list, Oldsmobiles were down $200 below list price, and even Fords, Pontiacs and Plymouths were selling slightly below list...
...were still the rule. But for Fords, the premium was down to a $125-$300 range, as compared with $300-$700 six months ago. For Chevrolets and Pontiacs, it was down from $500 to $300. What bothered dealers most was that they had paid too much to get the cars. Said one overloaded Livernois dealer: "Somebody's going to take one hell of a licking on this street. It looks like there's going to be more finance people operating the used car business than there are models on the lots." Cashless Customers. What caused the drop? Northern...