Word: cars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some countries, [they] are unrivaled as occasions in which to cultivate acquaintances. How many an interesting political connection was first conceived by a certain foreign head of a mission in a convulsive handshake in a funeral cortege and cemented by giving him a lift home in his car from the ceremony...
...some reason, Charley Gray became mildly irritated. "The little woman kissing her husband good-by," he mocked. "Everything depends on this moment. He must get the big job or Junior can't go to boarding school. And what about the payments on the new car? Goodby, darling, and don't come back to me without being vice president of the trust company...
When sales of Kaiser-Frazer cars went into a slump recently, K-F cut production from 675 to 350 units a day rather than cut prices. Last week, its annual report showed why it had no choice. Though its sales had increased 24% to $341,500,000, its 1948 profit, before taxes, had risen only 2%. And after taxes, the profit of $10 million was little more than half that of 1947, when no taxes were paid. In effect, K-F could not afford to cut prices because it was making less than $100 a car...
With a buyer's market in cars fast approaching, K-F's General Manager Edgar Kaiser, Henry's nimble-witted son, knew he had to get his costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...
...whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side at any given moment...