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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...license slot machines to provide more pension revenue. Elsewhere the pension cause was successful. North Dakota approved pensions of $40 a month. Colorado rejected an amendment repealing its present $45-a-month pensions which its opponents declared were bankrupting the State. Missourians thought it was all right to lower the age minimum for pensioners from...
...years back. The low-priced Skylark six struck from these dies is sleek and slip-streamy with a 101-h. p. motor for which is claimed the fastest getaway of any U. S. car. Price: $895. (Later a 4-cylinder motor will be installed for a lower-price market.) Other Hupps: the Senior Six ($995) and Eight ($1,145), conventional streamliners with optional overdrive equipment. Standard on all: steering post gearshift...
Oldsmobile has three series: a new six-cylinder Sixty in the medium price field at $889 and its Seventy six and Eighty eight, lower-priced than last year at $952 and $1,043. Retained is the straight-line streamline; stressed is "rhythmic ride," result of new coil springing at the four frame corners; standard is a handishift like Buick's; optional, the automatic transmission...
Pontiac introduces a Quality Six at $866. Lower this year by $20 to $40, the regular DeLuxe Six and Eight are $922 up and $970 up respectively. Unspectacularly designed, Pontiac inclines toward roominess, generosity in accessories...
...Congressional lobbying, duels with the Catholic Church, her sensational visit to Japan in 1922, a whirlwind missionary tour of India-are well known. But her beginnings-as the sixth of eleven children of a free-thinking tombstone carver in Corning, N. Y., as a nurse on Manhattan's lower East Side, and as a central member of the group of famous pre-War radicals which included Walter Lippmann, John Reed, Big Bill Haywood, Mabel Dodge-make the best reading...