Word: expressible
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. christened an eleven-car Merchandise Express did the U. S. develop a full-fledged catalog on wheels...
Marshall Field's is not only a smart department store in the second city of the land; it is the biggest wholesale house in the Midwest. And the Merchandise Express was purely wholesaling promotion. Air conditioned cars were leased from Baltimore & Ohio R.R., stripped of seats, fitted up as modernistic display rooms. Forward was a dormitory car for the train crew; in the rear were a dining car, two Pullmans and an office car with desks, typewriters, reception room, service...
...last week, having swung through Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky, the Merchandise Express was chuffing into the South. When its 3,000-mile itinerary is completed it will have visited 19 important centres including Memphis, Little Rock, New Orleans and Atlanta. Precise dates of arrival were kept secret so that no sly competitor could stage a counterattraction...
...boarded the train, some having motored a hundred miles from little farming communities in the surrounding territory. Some brought their wives & children. Big Peoria stores deployed their sales employes through the train in squads of ten to pick up new ideas. And over highballs and buffet snacks the Merchandise Express staff sold $20,000 worth of goods in two days...
Meanwhile George, Duke of Kent-"P. G." to his intimates-was up and about London, reported by the Daily Express to have had "the thrill of a lifetime." This occurred when H. R. H. descended into an underground station accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman...