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Cost-cutting also ended the motor-man-conductor teams on streetcars, pushed onto the busy bus driver the added chores of change-making, direction-giving, etc. Nerves frayed by traffic, many drivers became rude and disagreeable, thereby turned still more customers away. Said the Houston Post: "Management and drivers . . . seem to be taking turnabout tapping nails into the coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METROPOLITAN TRANSIT--: Horsecar Management in Expressway Age | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...casting sheep's eyes at the girl, as she allows that "It's much more interesting for a woman if a man is older." So it goes, everybody barreling happily down the wrong side of the street. Then, of course, the emotional trafric-including an angry motor scooter belonging to the midinette's boy friend (Claude Romainj-gets too heavy, and age must be swerved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Harry Schulman 51, Dean of Yale Law School and nationally recognized labor arbitrator for the Ford Motor company, died yesterday at his home in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dean of Yale's Law School Dies at New Haven Home | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

Russia's underworked consumers'-goods advertising agency, a sort of low-pressure B.B.D. & Omsk, got a new product to talk about last week. Over Radio Moscow floated the words of a U.S. style commercial: "A new limousine, the Volga, has been built at the Molotov Gorky Motor Works . . . The new car has an unusually broad windshield and a number of gadgets including a clock on the dashboard, a radio and a heater. Everything is well designed and of excellent workmanship . . . far surpasses the Pobeda in elegance of lines and finish and is much roomier. For long-distance travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Don't Walk; Wait | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Names. Wolfson also named candidates Nos. 4 and 5 to his proposed nine-man slate of Ward directors (the first three: Wolfson himself; Robert Black president of the White Motor Co. : William J. Hobbs, onetime Coca-Cola president). One was topflight Advertising Woman Bernice Fitz-Gibbon of New York, the famed sloganeer who originated Macy's "It's smart to be thrifty," and "Nobody, but nobody undersells Gimbels." The other: E. W. Endter, risen-from-the-ranks president of California Oil East Coast subsidiary of Standard Oil of California. Endter told reporters that he had resigned when forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bare Knuckles in Chicago | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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