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Word: carse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Motors surprised the motor industry, and everyone else, last week by cutting the price of its cars. It was not a deep slash-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on Cadillacs-but it was a cut, nevertheless. Light and medium trucks, which are getting harder to sell, were reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Break | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Squeeze on K-F | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Squeeze on K-F | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Of Black & Tans. The free-for-alls of O'Casey's Volume IV are set in the years when Eire was finally obtaining her independence. Black & Tans roar through Dublin in armored cars, Irish rebels fight them off shoulder to shoulder-and, after defeating them, turn their ferocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaum to the Last | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Bank Teller Robert Gibson, an ex-B-29 pilot, was at the lower end of the snorkel, twelve feet down in a cashier's cage beneath the sidewalk. By means of a periscope and a loudspeaker running up through the steel box, he could see and talk with customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: The Snorkel | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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