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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between March 5 and March 12 U. S. automobile manufacturers spent $1,250,000 and their dealers spent perhaps an equivalent sum in the first concerted drive the industry has ever put on-National Used Car Exchange Week (TIME. March 7). Because there are 46,000 registered automobile dealers in the U. S. and an indeterminate number of independents with lots full of jalopies, statistics of their trade are never very precise. Estimates of the used car glut on March 5 ranged from 700,000 to 1,000,000, with the latter figure probably the more accurate (normal...
...sellers were the highest-priced models. Ford dealers sold an estimated 57,000 units, General Motors 65,000, Chrysler 30,000. Last week WPA announced that for the first time in four months Detroit relief rolls fell. Said Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis, who conceived the used car drive: "From 30% to 60% of the transactions made by our dealers were for cash. This is a healthy situation. . . . In other words, there was no straining of credit to get these satisfactory results...
...Eise, Monday, 8-5 o'clock; Dr. R. M. Ferry (Master's Lodgings, 966 Memorial Drive) 7.45-9 o'clock. Dr. H. Gregerson Tuesday 3-5 o'clock, Professor R. M. Ferry Wednesday 3-5 o'clock. Professor P. S. Wild, Thursday 3-5 o'clock, Mr. H. E. Guerlac, Friday 3-5 o'clock...
...Bill Neufeld some weeks ago gave up the Cage to baseball and spring football. Since being evicted Crimson runners have been following the river to Watertown and back, pacing the crews alongside. Now that the Stadium is ready Jaakko and his charges are prancing for the final pre-season drive...
...Chronicles contains incidents and implications that Galsworthy would not have touched with a ten-foot pole, it also contains ironic flashes equally foreign to the Englishman. Papa Pasquier, with his tempers, girls and moralizing lectures, studying to be a doctor in his middle age, buying automobiles that he cannot drive or pay for, lecturing strangers for their impoliteness in yawning in public, messing up the affairs of his whole family without an instant's remorse, is a pompous, ridiculous, formidable figure. "Ah - fine weather," says Papa Pasquier, as he steps outdoors, "or at least pretty good." Although Author Duhamel...