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...settling back into being just a business. And for the moment, at least, business was not very good. Since the first of the year, used car prices have fallen between 10 and 20%. Last week, even with lower prices, most used car lots were jammed with bright, shiny secondhand jobs, and sales were pretty much at a standstill...
What sales there were did little to cheer the salesmen. Except for "used" new Cadillacs, which still command handsome ($1,100) premiums after they have been driven around the block a time or two, secondhand luxury cars were on a cutrate basis...
...raise money for materials Ye painted oil and watercolor portraits of G.I.s. "Some of them gave me their shoes," he says, "which brought in much money." A U.S. Army chaplain .helped him get some secondhand tin for his church roof. When the church tower is finished, Ye plans to put a tablet over the entrance proclaiming that, as the ravens fed Elijah, so "the G.I.s from beyond the Pacific fed God's prophet and helped to build God's church...
...when he was just out of the University of Pennsylvania. To his $500 savings, his father, James, a textile jobber, added $5,000. With the money, they formed Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. with Joe as president. They rented a loft in a Woonsocket (R.I.) mill, bought some secondhand machinery, hired two workers and started weaving worsted fabrics...
...cover its embarrassment, the Met offered a surprising explanation: Soprano Schleuter had been signed by the Met without being seen or heard-merely on secondhand recommendations, and the name she had made for herself in Germany's shabby postwar opera. It was a common practice, to pick singers that way, added...