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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the subject of made-to-order auto bodies belongs to the esoteric, I am horrified at the appellation and price [$30,000] of the "sybaritic specimens." A "Coup de Ville" is improper French for the wrong type of carrosserie. A Coupée de Ville is a body with an open-type front as the Coach-craft Coupé de Ville I designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...that another 2,000,000 people were working less than full time. Actually, this sounded worse than it was. January employment is always less than December's, when the Christmas trade is glowing; 351,000 more were in jobs than were working in January 1948. Wholesale food prices were also dropping sharply-the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Change of Pitch | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Cuba. But he could not get on the quota, could not get a visa as a student, could not get work. At a restaurant where refugees congregate in Havana's cobbled barrio judio (Jewish quarter), he met a smuggler's agent named Simowitz. The price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...camp in Italy, they wrote an uncle who runs a small grocery store on New York's East 96th Street. He wangled their entry into Cuba, sent them money for the trip. Like Woloski, lancu could not get work in Cuba. The smuggler's price to the Hersjus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Smugglers' Trove | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...leaves enough loose ends around to knit a pair of argyle socks. People are killed aimlessly for the sheer desire to spill gore, the heroine is permitted to warble a couple of songs, and there are even a couple of inscrutable references to the Russians. The role of Vincent Price left this observer completely baffled. He run guns to the natives, helped out former SS men, and was in general a sort of catch-all character. The last thing he caught was a slug in the head and two in the chest. Good riddance...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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