Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a quick inspection Dr. Compton boomed: "Perhaps not all of you understand that this is the first test of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator as a complete machine. . . . Up to the time Dr. Van de Graaff built his small laboratory model [at Princeton] which developed more than 1,000,000 volts [TIME, Nov. 16, 1931], the highest direct current ever attained by man was about 800,000 volts. With this big generator we hope tonight to reach several million volts...
...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...
...dealer may allow a customer the full price listed in the guide. He must deduct a charge for handling and reconditioning, ranging from 5% to 15% depending upon the age of the car. The official guide price of a Ford cabriolet, 1930 model, in the New York area is $210. The mandatory deduction (15%) fixes the maximum allowance to a customer at $178.50. Other Guide prices in District No. 2 (five passenger sedans, 1930 models): Buick 30-57, $425; Chevrolet, $195; Chrysler 70, $300; Franklin, $700; Hudson Greater 8, $265; La Salle $575; Nash 480, $375; Packard...
...divulge its listed prices for publication. The N. A. D. A. wants to give its members a chance to work off their trade-ins at a price higher than the average listed. But last week almost any dealer would tell a customer the listed price on a certain model on request. In the long run used car prices were expected to stabilize close to what consumers are sure to learn is the average in their trade areas...
...contained in a chapter of John Dos Passos' 42nd Paralled or 1919, Author Brunngraber's complicated sum does not add up to nearly so impressive a human total. Failure though it must be rated, however, Karl and the 20th Century is significant as a 1933 advanced model of what our old horse-drawn novels are coming...