Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for brisk interest in the motor truck show was the refinement of Diesel power (hitherto a luxury of heavy duty trucking), for 1½ to 3-ton trucks. Main advantages of Diesel power are that it needs no carburetion, no spark plugs, no electric ignition system (sources of 90% of gasoline motor troubles), gets more power and mileage out of low-grade cheap fuel oil than gasoline motors get out of premium gasoline...
However, if a voluntary plan is submitted by defendants, which not only eliminates the practices complained of but goes farther and offers provisions in the public interest . . . it will be considered. . . ." In short, before the Department of Justice would call off its suit. Ford and Chrysler had to agree to stop doing something they had a legal right to do. Warned Thurman Arnold: "The decrees in the present cases may become most important precedents in preventing the misuse of advertising power in other fields...
...financing had been grabbed through coercive means by the four big companies owned or tied up with automobile companies.* At their annual convention in Chicago last week, members of the Conference heard Lawyer Berge discuss at length the theory of consent decrees as a justifiable compromise in the public interest and declare that advertising "probably cannot be dealt with under existing law and must be left for future consideration...
Announcement of the U. S. publication of Tropic of Cancer was surprising literary news not only because of its underground reputation. It revealed the recent revival of interest in the neglected field of experimental writing-that cloudy area of modern letters with its little magazines, obscure poems, defiant manifestoes, communications from Ezra Pound. In Manhattan a plump, handsome periodical, Twice a Year, took up where The Dial left off a decade ago. In Paris appeared The Black Book, a novel by Lawrence Durrell, who gave promise of outdoing Henry Miller in the form that admirers call the dithyrambic novel...
...desire to continue broadcasts dealing with topics of public interest has led to this evening's dinner, in the course of which various ideas will be put forward as to the possible form of a permanent program. Sterling Fisher, educational director for the Columbia Broadcasting System will attend...