Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you remember the postwar proposal (TIME BUSINESS, Sept. 17) of an energetic, young (37) Jacksonville, Fla. barge-line operator named Harold Gray Williams to ferry motorists and their cars across the 90 nautical miles from Key West to Havana, Cuba. Travelers had dreamed of it, but Williams had gone...
A U.S. motormaker offered Williams the exclusive distributorship for his cars in Cuba.
Curious crowds jammed the narrow sidewalks of Princes Street. Solemnly they watched the delegates of 51 nations roll up in their cars, and file into Central Hall.
Then Kaiser-Frazer ran full-page ads announcing that its cars would soon be on display, although actual car production is months away. Front-page newspaper stories about Kaiser-Frazer's new labor contract brought more publicity. Plans to lease a West Coast plant leaked out. Result: Kaiser-Frazer...
Gibson installed a $125,000 "Skimobile" invented by an employe. In the Skimobile's 180 miniature red & blue cable cars, skiers ride up the 2,052-foot mountain. Then Gibson developed 50 miles of downhill trails, hired famed skimeister Hannes Schneider (after he got him out of a Nazi...