Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athanassios, still a bachelor, had learned that Soultana was married and living in the village of Mavrodendri. He left his business and rushed off to Greece. But, fearing that "it would be hard for Soultana to abandon the little ones," Athanassios returned to Detroit. In January of this year, Soultana dispatched a telegram: COME AND MEET ME AT VERROIA RAILROAD STATION OR I WILL TAKE POISON. They met and eloped...
...thousands of U.S. car buyers, the secret best kept by dealers is the list price suggested by Detroit. The reason is "price packing," the skilled and corrupt art by which some dealers boost the cost of accessories-from map lights to automatic transmissions-until the car's price is several hundred dollars over list. The dealer then generously offers a hefty "discount," or an inflated trade-in price, giving the customer the illusion that the deal is fantastically good. Last week in Washington, the Justice Department opened an investigation of price packing aimed at indictments under the Sherman Antitrust...
Another attack on such chiseling by "a few unscrupulous dealers" is being led by Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney. He has sponsored a bill requiring that every new car in a showroom be clearly labeled with the maker's list price. Some Detroit carmakers are privately in favor of the bill as a way of regaining customer trust...
...tune of I Know That You Know, a 45-voice chorus roared out the "Buy" song 1,000 times over radio and TV in recession-racked Detroit (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) in the past fortnight. Following through, the city's radio stations contributed 10,000 ten-second spots, exhorted Detroiters to "Buy now!" Newspapers ran banners on advertising pages: KEEP DETROIT DYNAMIC-BUY NOW. Everyone pitched in for a civic crusade to buy Detroit-and the auto industry-out of its depression...
...Detroit's fever spread fast. Car dealers in 245 U.S. cities were cranking up hardsell campaigns for April or May. Their slogan: "You Auto Buy Now." Many will stage horn-tooting parades through downtown areas, will serve free coffee to all comers in the showrooms, will trim some prices. (Ford cut prices $15 and $16 on some Fairlane models to bring them in line with Chevrolet prices...