Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
Born. To Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 27, youngest of Britain's nonroyal dukes, and the Duchess of Rutland, 22, ex-Mayfair model, once known as "the girl with the perfect figure": their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: undecided. Weight...
...months ago was on sale for $2,100. In Los Angeles, Kelley Kar Co., which boasts that it is the biggest used-car dealer in the world, cut prices $200 to $500 a car. In Cleveland, prices were off about 20% and dealers were referring to any 1942 model as "a white elephant." Hardest hit were 1946 models. A few weeks ago they were selling from $500 to $2,000 above new car prices. By last week the markups had dropped to $100 to $200-and the cars were moving off the lots slowly...
...drop in prices was more than the usual midwinter slump. It was dollars-&-cents evidence that the buyers' market in used cars-and eventually in new cars as well-was uncomfortably close for dealers. And car prices were still high by prewar standards. Production of "1947 models" by General Motors and Ford in the next months, even though model changes were hardly noticeable, would knock used-car prices down still more...
...Ford Motor Co.'s sales manager John R. Davis announced more bad news for the second-hand dealers: late this year Ford will start producing 1948 models that will show "the greatest change since the introduction of the Model A twenty years ago." And, he added, they would be cheaper than present models...