Word: sells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wonder if we could sell that slogan to the anti-40 corporations...
Mittie Gordon was a follower of famed Negro Marcus Garvey, who in the 19205 aroused millions of Negroes to a frenzy of enthusiasm for life in Africa. Although Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey was convicted of using the mails to sell fraudulent stocks and was deported, Mrs. Gordon still thinks he is the greatest of Negroes. "Garvey Clubs" still exist, and what is left of his Universal Negro Improvement Association backs the Bilbo bill. Chief opposition comes from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose pale-skinned President Walter White is denounced as an "amalgamationist" by Senator Bilbo...
What the Crosley dealers saw as he sat there was a sleek, rakish, convertible sedan with tiny wheels, wide doors, a neatly streamlined hood and front end. Designed to sell cheaply, like Crosley radios and refrigerators, to run economically (like Mr. Crosley's Cincinnati Reds), the new four-passenger car has a two-seater companion, a convertible coupè which can also be used as a quarter-ton delivery...
...factory at Richmond, Ind. and an older plant in Cincinnati, on May 15 Crosley Corp. expects to start production with 200 cars a day, sell them through the 25,000-odd Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...