Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meantime, in Illinois, the Committee's Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republican, stalked the Kelly-Nash covert, with a reluctant Democratic Senator, Lister Hill, at his side. Senator Hill can outbay a Baskerville hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...
Last week such scenes were becoming possible. For stone slabs bearing dinosaur tracks are actually on the U. S. market. The Nash brothers (George Harlan, 28, and Carlton Snell, 26) of South Hadley, Mass. sell their Triassic wares not only to museums and universities, but also to strong-minded householders. Prices range from $4 to $30 or $40 per track, depending on size and depth...
Shale and sandstone strata bearing dinosaur tracks have been known in Massachusetts' Connecticut Valley region for a long time. The South Hadley bed was found in 1933 by blond, blue-eyed Carlton Nash, who had been fossil-fascinated since childhood. The shale crops out near a wooded, winding road popular with Mount Holyoke College girls and their swains. For six years the brothers kept their secret, then bought two acres from a utility company which owned them. They got to work with broom, sledge and chisel, circulated neat little advertising folders. By last week, nearing the end of their...
...Nash's chief is fat, cigar-smoking, trout-loving George Walter Mason, who headed the fast-stepping Kelvinator Corp. before it merged with Nash in 1937. He has his own ideas about prices. On Jan. 10, 1940 he blew the lid off the complacent electric-refrigerator industry by slashing "stripped" boxes $30 to $40 a unit to a record low level of $119.95. Pleased by results (Kelvinator sales up 125% to new record, industry up 35%), Mason is applying similar tactics to the auto industry this year...
Already worried by glowing reports on his "600," automen were shocked last week when Mason slashed his medium-priced Nash sixes and eights as much as $159 (new prices $923 to $1,151). Arch-independent Mason also bucked the trend by yanking all the fancy work off the higher-priced Nash-giving it a sleek, custom-made appearance. The new "600" and price cuts, prophesies Mason, will boost Nash output to a record 125,000 cars this year, more than double 1940 model sales...