Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field selling certificates with a face value of some $6,000,000 every month. Carmi Thompson has been president for only three years. Actual boss is Founder Paull's son-in-law, onetime Assistant U. S. Attorney General John Marshall, whose family are the biggest stockholders. Sleek, bright-eyed Mr. Marshall, who is chairman of the board, said Fidelity would fight...
...diplomacy, blinking before a Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa...
...brother Jim wanted to amuse themselves by putting out the nearest tongues of flame with a garden hose. Leo Carrillo's was evacuated because unlike less energetic movie folk who watched the flames from their porches, he preferred the excitement of riding close on his sleek white horse...
Equipment ranging from sleek little package cars to 30-ton double-trailer trucks, 58-passenger busses, and mobile airport units, indicated the range of utility covered by the U. S. trucking industry, which gives employment to more than 3,000,000, pays special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter...
Hupmobile, out of the running for more than two years, is back with a new president, onetime Chicago Dealer S. L. Davis, and the dies of the flashy, ahead-of-its-time Cord of a few years back. The low-priced Skylark six struck from these dies is sleek and slip-streamy with a 101-h. p. motor for which is claimed the fastest getaway of any U. S. car. Price: $895. (Later a 4-cylinder motor will be installed for a lower-price market.) Other Hupps: the Senior Six ($995) and Eight ($1,145), conventional streamliners with optional overdrive...