Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clean sales" for cash or installment rates. The rest are for old cars plus. Advancing the automotive year boosted new car sales, but used-car buyers have apparently clung to their habit of waiting until spring to purchase. Thus used cars have piled up steadily in the hands of dealers, are now 25% to 35% above normal. And spring is still two months away. While the threat of dealer bankruptcy is no greater than usual, there is so much cash tied up in used-car inventories that dealers' ability to buy new cars from manufacturers may soon be impaired...
...move one new car the average dealer has to sell two and a half used cars. A used-car buyer generally has an old one to trade in too. By the end of the third transaction in this series the dealer will probably have on his floor what the trade calls a "jallopy"'-anything from plain junk to a museum piece...
Winslow Homer was born in Boston, son of a hardware dealer. When he was 19 he was apprenticed to a Boston lithographer named Bufford, who set him to work designing title pages for sheet music. Lithographer Bufford was a member of Father Homer's volunteer fire company...
...Author has ridden to hounds for 35 years. Well-to-do, like most M.F.H.'s, he still goes to his old-fashioned Manhattan office to "work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D...
Sure enough, the next day SEC's over-the-counter rule was challenged in the District of Columbia Supreme Court by J. Edward Jones, the Manhattan oil royalty dealer whom SEC has been trying to put out of business for nearly a year. His other SEC trouble involved issuance of new securities. That case-the only pending challenge of the 1933 Act-Royalist Jones appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which has not yet accepted it for consideration...