Word: showrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price. One reason for low prices: in the auctioneer's showroom, the furnishings looked a bit shoddy...
...Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd took over. Unlike her male confreres, she was on familiar, everyday ground. After reading a mound of material on fashion's past, she set out to investigate its present-from Sophie's Fifth Avenue salon to Nettie Rosenstein's ("they call it showroom in this neck of the woods") among the pushcarts on Seventh Avenue. In examining the mechanism that was creating the New Look, she quickly concluded that "I definitely had the Old Look...
...prospective buyer was offered prompt delivery of either a Kaiser or Frazer in a choice of four colors, along with a spare tire, a box of tools, a tankful of gas, and a radiator full of anti-freeze thrown in. In Seattle, a buyer could walk into a showroom and take his pick of 16 cars. In Dallas, salesmen were offering delivery in five hours; the delay was only for servicing, registration, etc. And in Los Angeles, where plans for a K-F assembly line have been shelved, one dealer anxiously asked an impatient customer: "Well, would half an hour...
...spirit of American nationalism grew, they abandoned their exclusive commercial attachment with the Old Country, and moved into Cambridge, opening up for business on Oxford Street. In 1932 they folded their tents again, and moved over to Boylston Street, transforming a part of Ofgant's stark, cement Chevrolet showroom into a homely little market of a million items...
...ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth ?991 new is worth ?1,850 ($7,640) secondhand, a ?352 Ford is worth ?710 ($2,932) once it has been used. So Britons are paying for 1) low production...