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...Chicago landlords were being offered the following "inducements" by apartment hunters: free dental care for life, a refrigerator, a television set, a year's free voice and piano lessons, a set of bathroom fixtures, contact lenses, an outboard motor, $500 worth of interior decorating...
...rollicking tailwind acted the part of an outboard motor as the first act of the Interhouse crew competition yesterday afternoon on a slect-gray, sun-washed Charles River...
...Texas Way. President E. B. Germany ruefully admitted that the company had indeed made such deals-with Ford Motor Co., which promised to be a good, steady customer, and with Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which had advanced payment of $500,000 which Lone Star badly needed. But the deals that had set Estes ablaze were not with Ford and Kaiser-Frazer; they involved less imposing buyers...
...General Motors announced that it would lay off some 200,000 workers-more than half its total force-for at least a week, because of steel and pig-iron shortages. The motor industry, Ward's Automotive Reports said, would make about 265,000 fewer cars and trucks this quarter than expected...
Biggest difference between the present automatic washer and the new machine is the drying system. The tank of the Rand washer is lined with rubber. To dry clothes, the water and air are sucked out by a motor-driven pump, creating a vacuum which 1) causes the rubber to collapse, squeezing the clothing dry, and 2) lowers the boiling point of the water that remains until it turns into steam and passes...