Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week that some businessmen wondered: is it too good to last? The National Automobile Dealers Association, for one, thought it was. Meeting in Atlantic City, the dealers compared notes. They found that order lists were melting away far faster than expected because of 1) high production and 2) cancellations due to high prices and living costs. They expected that spot deliveries would be commonplace by year's end. Emerson Radio likewise took a dim view of the size of the market. In the first big break in radio prices, it reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model...
...remaining six Houses will vote for their respective representatives tomorrow using the same elevation procedure, while Dudley hall balloting, due to its special commuters' problem, will take place at noon meals both days...
...copies are due in about three weeks. The records will also be offered at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Yale, where they will go on sale next Monday. Form all reports reaching Cambridge, a sell-out is also expected at these schools...
Floundering airlines meant more than just T.W.A. Of the big lines, T.W.A. was in the worst shape. But some smaller lines were also in danger of crashing. And all the airlines, hit by a falling-off of traffic due to crashes and abnormally bad winter weather, had had one of the worst Januarys in their history They had been doing none too well before that. In the first eleven months of 1946, the U.S. airlines had shown an estimated net loss of over $900,000 v. a net profit of about $20,000,000 for the same period...
...short-circuited electric fitting. When this fitting was redesigned and a few other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation in Eire, killing 13, said he, was due to faulty maintenance of altimeters, not faulty design. Concluded Bill Burden: "The grounding action and resultant publicity have worked an undue-hardship on the Constellation...