Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each & every automobile dealer in the U. S. last week went a fat little pocket manual to put a stop to this competitive method of price cutting. As an appendage of the automobile dealers' code under NRA, the manual listed the maximum trade-in allowance on every make and model of car. No dealer could offer a customer more without violating the code. risking punishment. The prices listed were compiled from nation-wide second-hand sales by the National Automobile Dealers Association, which issues its Official Used Car Guide on prices each month...
...worries in his early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness "with an almost religious decorum," and discovering the perennial truth that the gentleman is an almost extinct species, wrote a manual of best behavior (The Courtier) which still makes later books of etiquette seem crude...
Died. Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, 61, commander of Battleship Division 3, author of The Bluejacket's Manual; suddenly, on board his temporary flagship Nevada; in San Francisco...
Last year the Socialist Government of Manual Azana finally banished him from the Cortes and clapped him into jail, held him there without trial. From his cell Juan March pulled every wire in sight, got himself elected to the Tribunal of Constitutional Guarantees to judge the work of the Republic and was more than any other man responsible for the downfall of the Azana Cabinet (TIME, Sept...
...good in the occupation of his choice? Personnel men have done a good deal of work on the testing of abilities. But their results are not yet very satisfactory for their tests are negative rather than positive. They can show that a man has not, let us say, the manual dexterity required to be a good dentist, but their tests do not prove that he can otherwise fulfill the demands which dentistry will make of him. One testing expert has told me that a man choosing his career should give but one per cent weight to the results of tests...