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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheaper Midget. Automaker Powel Crosley cut the factory price of his midget Crosley sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...seven French-speaking Radcliffe and Harvard undergraduates will be chosen to join half a dozen French students on the stuff of counselors. Director of the Camp will be Crosley Hodgeman, headmaster of Newton's Beaver Country Day School for girls. American counselors will pay their own traveling expenses, a rools bottom figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Offers French Summer Camp | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...Powel Crosley Jr., the big man (6 ft. 4 in.) with the midget car, this week introduced his new line of 1948 automobiles. Among them was the cheapest postwar model he has yet produced: a two-passenger multi-purpose sports and general utility car. The price: $799 f.o.b. Marion, Ind. It brought Crosley closer to his ambition of producing virtually the same car for $500 if prices of raw materials and other costs go down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Growing Midget | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...same ambition was reflected in Crosley's other two new models: a two-door, four-passenger station wagon ($929, f.o.b.); a ¼-ton-capacity panel delivery truck ($8.99 f.o.b.). Crosley considers himself in competition with the used car market. Said he: "I should like to make clear that our ambitions . . . are comparatively unpretentious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Growing Midget | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Powel Crosley had made a fairly pretentious start in carmaking. He began making cars in June of 1946 in two plants -in Cincinnati, Ohio and Marion, Ind. By the end of his first year he had turned out 16,637 cars, for a gross of $12,073,721 and a net profit of $476,065. By expanding the company's two factories, Crosley expects to step up the rate of production from a current 2,700 cars a month to 3,000 early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Growing Midget | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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