Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your Joplin correspondent (TIME, May 4) appears to think that I am undignified-or worse -in having the make, price and my name and endorsement painted on the side of my car. To him I am a "motorized sandwichman." I am a stockholder in the Hudson Motor Car Co., makers of my $595 Essex, and as a stockholder I am playing my part in endeavoring to sell their product, which is also, as a stockholder, mine. Maybe that's undignified-but if all stockholders of all companies were salesmen for their products, maybe we would have less unemployment...
Oldfield in Joplin...
Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
ROBERT L. HUTCHISON Joplin...