Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real hardship on the privileged U.S. public. But lest it should, Manhattan's Viewtone Co. last week said that it was ready with a set for "the average man." Viewtone, which is now making electronic devices for military use, backed its claim by displaying a small table model, with a small (4½ x 6½ in.) screen. Price: $100. Viewtone promised to go into production of "hundreds of thousands of sets" as soon as WPB said the word...
...pumped-up omelet of cornfield murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...
This brought indignant snorts from G.M.'s Frigidaire Division at Moraine City, whose first model had rolled out the week before, alongside assembly lines still turning out B-29 propellers...
Last week, after a long Willys-OPA huddle, the price came out: $1,090, f.o.b. Toledo. Some farmers, who apparently hoped the jeep would be at the Model T Ford price level, suddenly began to find objections. Said Iowa Farmer A. J. Loveland: "Personally, I think it's too high. After the war you might buy a tractor and a car for $1,090." Said Iowa State Agriculture Secretary Harry D. Linn: "Jeeps will fit in well for runabout errands. But I can't see how the practical farmer is going to go crazy over it. They shake...
Despite the knocks (including some from tractor manufacturers John Deere Tractor Co. and International Harvester), Willys went right ahead with its plan to make the U.S. farmer jeep-conscious. As a stunt, five of the jeeps were flown across country in a Consolidated Vultee Model 39 cargo plane, put down in Los Angeles (see cut) for more publicity...