Word: crosleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slightly bigger than the Crosley, Standards have a 90-inch wheelbase, a four-cylinder, eight-horsepower engine (U.S. rating: 28 horsepower), will cruise at 50 m.p.h., get 35 to 40 miles on a gallon of gas. The Standards come in three models, "tourer," "saloon" (sedan) and "drophead coupe" (convertible coupe). Another shipment of 8 or 9 cars arrived in the U.S. last week...
...current voice-identifying contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...
...Price ceilings on other makes-Packard, Hudson, Nash, Willys, Crosley and the new Fraser-Kaiser are still to come...
Growing Pains. Victor Emanuel, shrewd, farsighted chairman of the $36 million Aviation Corp. that owns 29.6% of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., continued his flight towards diversification. Having purchased Crosley Corp. (TIME, July 2) in June (radios, household appliances), Emanuel last week announced that Aviation Corp. will plunk out over $4,100,000 to buy control of New Idea, Inc., manufacturers of farm machinery and implements...
...time last week 80,000 workers were on strike, including 5,000 at the Crosley Corp. in Cincinnati, 7,500 at the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp. in Savannah. There were 40 work stoppages throughout the nation; new ones threatened daily as the old ones ended. Even the oldtime prewar gags to attract picket-line attention reappeared - in Hollywood, of course...