Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Counter. Hudson Motor Car Co. announced a new-sales policy designed to end gouging, notably on accessories. To make sure that at least 50% of its customers got only the extra accessories they really wanted, half the Hudsons delivered to dealers will be stripped of gadgets. On trade-ins, Hudson told dealers to pay "a fair market price...
...unwanted accessories. To get new cars, four of them passed out "tips" of $500 to Robert Kearney and others in Washington's Kearney Oldsmobile Co.; four more shelled out from $300 to $480 above list price for Hudsons at Washington's New York Avenue Motor Co. Others testified that they had traded in cars to dealers who promptly resold them for $300 to $700 profit...
Good Business. Little of this surprised automobile buyers very much. What was surprising was the way salesmen and dealers brazenly owned up to their grey marketeering. George E. Adlung, salesman for New York Avenue Motor Co., admitted receiving more than $1,200 in tips on only four sales. William Manuel, a salesman for Kearney, received at least $1,520 in tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade...
...government papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...
...Trophy on his pet 18-year-old jumper, Resorte. He rode a horse like a champion -without seeming to work at it. The big secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...