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...General Motors surprised the motor industry, and everyone else, last week by cutting the price of its cars. It was not a deep slash-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on Cadillacs-but it was a cut, nevertheless. Light and medium trucks, which are getting harder to sell, were reduced...
Only the new Dodge was on display to show the public what its extra dollars would buy from Chrysler this year. At last week's Manhattan debut, "the daring new Dodge" did not look as daring as new models of other motor-makers. The chief changes were a slight lowering of the body, and a change from the swept-back stern to the bustle-back, thus providing more luggage space. An automatic shift ("Gyro-Matic") will be optional on the "Coronet" models...
When Charlie's sudden wealth reached $2,500, he had an inspirational idea: he picked up the telephone and invited the whole Packard Motor Car Co. to come out and have a beer. "I'm going to buy my wife some new clothes," he cried, "and get drunk for a week. Then I'm going to buy her a Mixmaster and get drunk again...
...long, people kept coming to Charlie Monak's house in Detroit with handfuls of green, crumpled-up folding money. By noon he had $2,000. Charlie, a Packard Motor Car Co. dynamometer tester, ordered in two barrels of beer and plenty of whisky to go with it. As the money flowed in last week, everybody drank, yelled and danced around the front room...
Cerebral palsy is caused by certain unexplained variations in brain structure, or by a breakdown in the brain motor centers from an injury before or during birth. Having no control over certain muscles, severe cases are often unable to perform such simple functions as speaking, walking, or feeding themselves. Cerebral palsy cannot be cured. The best that can be done is to train other parts of the brain to take over the duties normally performed by the injured or missing section...