Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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I note, under National Affairs [TIME, Aug. 12], that our recent Congress has allocated $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees. Swell, I certainly am in accord with the idea. What I would like to know is, isn't that a rather excessive amount? Figuring $1,600 to a...
By nightfall, the sandpile had taken on fresh interest. Dark, and obscured by the ocean mist, it made a wonderful hazard for cars. A little crowd gathered hopefully to watch the fun; two soldiers on the curb held hands with their girls; some carpenters sat by a small fire and...
Not till January 1948, said he, could G.M. and the other car makers hope to hit the rate of 6,000,000 cars a year they had expected to reach late this year. (Auto production this week was 76,106 cars, a rate of 3,900,000 a year.) One...
With costs hopping up everywhere, Charlie Wilson had only one solution: raise the price of G.M. cars $100 all around. (G.M. will soon ask OPA to okay this.)
Could the auto market stand such a rise? It probably could, in the present mad scramble for cars. Despite indications that only one in every four orders is a "solid" one, there have been few rejections of cars by customers. Mass turndowns because of price rises seemed a long way...