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...Secondhand...
...classifications on Canada's tariff list 174 were upped. Also, one embargo was laid. Totally excluded from the Dominion by this embargo are all secondhand automobiles except those brought in by "tourists" or "settlers...
...into second-hand automobiles. What was described as a "small percentage" had been squandered on fun. President Hoover could not see where the loans had stimulated business as Bonus advocates in Congress predicted they would. Payment of old debts, he reasoned, does not create a demand for new goods. Secondhand car sales do not accelerate new motor production...
...course it is obligatory that the accounts of the pioneering aviation triumphs of modern times be accurately reported. What must be decided is whether the account of an eyewitness or that of one whose knowledge is secondhand, will be the accepted one. It is true that Byrd's book "Skyward", in which he relates his various flights, leaves little room for doubt as to who was the center and soul of the moments that arose, and even impress the careful thinker to take portions of the book with a great deal of salt...
...bought a secondhand, 93-ton yacht. With great ceremony he had re-christened it the Barbados after the island of his birth. He bought also two gaudy Packard limousines, seven pianos, which he put aboard his ship. He hired a captain, a crew, a chauffeur named Willie. With this outfit he would return to Barbados and make himself a king of trade. Last week he put to sea for the 1,500-mi. voyage home...