Word: coin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars will be rationed through May v. 1,450,000 sold in the same months last year. A bigger reason is that dealers smell sweet profits. With trade-ins down, along with new-car sales, they are satisfied not to sell unless they get their pound of coin. Consequently used-car sales volume has flopped. In Atlanta a big Chrysler-Plymouth dealer sold only 20 used cars in February, 70% below normal; the First National Bank reported used-car financing off 80%. In Texas, February sales were down 50%. Chicago's 265 big dealers have sold so few cars...
...pressagents in Washington appear to have been working overtime to coin a catchy victory slogan for America's war effort. They can relax...
...Quintet, which harks back to 18th-Century simplicity, was shrewdly judged so good by Soviet officials that in March 1941 they awarded Shostakovich a Stalin prize of 100,000 rubles for it (about 19,000 U.S. dollars), the biggest coin ever paid for a piece of chamber music...
...other side of Albany's new-found coin was not so shiny. The bars in Albany's two best hotels are crowded nightly with Albany girls, Air Corps officers and men. (British cadets get only $12.50 a week, train hard, go to bed early...
...civilian sales of the rubber industry (200,000 employes, 200,000 tire outlets). The new auto quota cut foreshadowed no new passenger cars after Jan. 31. Washing machine output (7,000 employes) was cut to one-third of last year's; makers of juke boxes, pinball machines, coin scales, etc, (about 12,000 employes) were...