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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth Tucker '52 rounded up members of her class and asked them to promise to be participants. She then presented the list of names to amazed Athletic Association officials...
Dance Group auditions in Agassiz Monday added Carla Friedman '52 to its membership list. The group, which now has 17 members, will soon begin practice for a modern interpretive dance symposium with Jackson in March...
Scores of such under-the-counter deals, which have run new car prices far above list prices, were dragged into the open last week by a House subcommittee in Washington. Detailing their new-car fever, buyers sheepishly told of 1) giving fat bonuses to dealers, 2) trading in old cars for much less than their value, and 3) paying out hundreds of dollars a car for unwanted accessories. To get new cars, four of them passed out "tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from...
Prices had dropped 10% to 40% in the past six weeks and volume was down even more. Outside of the Big Three (which in some cases were still drawing premiums of $150 to $300), prices on 1948 models were well below list price. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, capital of the used-car world, things got so bad that 20 dealers closed down. Dealers hoped for a revival next spring, but one said sadly: "The customer will never again pay more for a used car than for a new one. This time the honeymoon is really over...
...Place to Hide is, in essence, an excellent list of the places in which Bradley's Geiger counters burst into song. The average Navyman, who thought that the bomb was expected to pulverize its targets, was at first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic...