Word: carse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At 2 p.m. each day (except Saturdays) Isaiah's words issued forth from a mobile Palestine "resistance" radio. Last week Jerusalem had no peace. Armored cars raced up its hills, troops armed to the teeth patrolled its narrow streets, days & nights were loud with the rumble of mili tary...
After two false starts, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles this week announced price ceilings on new cars. On the whole they averaged close to the 1942 prices, as expected. But Bowles did have one big surprise: General Motors, which in 1941 made 47% of all U.S. cars, had its retail ceilings set...
Ralph Young, who would like to buy the sleepers himself, angrily claimed that sale of the sleepers to the railroads would not break up the sleeping-car monopoly. Interlocking financial interests of the roads with Pullman, Inc., he charged, would form a new monopoly. He also heckled the hidebound railroads...
Trains by Air. First electric trains to be made since 1941 by The Lionel Corp., the nation's biggest toy-train maker, were lifted off the assembly lines. They were flown to retailers. But parents will still have trouble buying them. Lionel will make only one model (retailing at...
Anticipating a protest from dealers, Bowles explained that the auto retailers' prewar mark-up of 22-25% on cars was cut to 12-13% by losses on high trade-in allowances. For the next few years Bowles thought that dealers would be able to keep trade-in allowances low...