Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressagent Straus runs his crew of ex-newsmen in PWA-Interior like a well-organized city staff, spurs them to dig up the kind of feature stories that newspapers are glad to get. Last week Mike Straus was pleased as punch over his latest job of pressagentry. From the slick, birch-lined radio studio atop the new Interior Building-only studio owned by any Government department-Mr. Ickes and assorted "Voices," hoofbeats, Indian drums, and aides broadcast a dramatization of Interior's 1938 report. Title of script was "My Dear Mr. President." Excerpt...
...fields around Cairo, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week ICC approved a reorganization plan...
...Conference could take no official resolutions on the Chrysler and Ford consent decrees because they were still awaiting acceptance or rejection this week by Federal Judge Thomas D. Slick of South Bend, Ind.* Judge Slick's decision is complicated by the fact that General Motors refused to make terms with the Department of Justice and its suit will therefore be prosecuted shortly. Smart Ford and Chrysler lawyers stipulated in their consent decrees that if General Motors wins the decrees are invalid, since General Motors would then have a competitive advantage...
...Yorker got free tickets to the Manhattan show on the condition that he fill in a style ballot. Weaver will also muster some of his motor enthusiasts for a personally conducted tour of the show. This week, too. Weaver's biggest customer research opus makes its debut-a slick, 80-page Motorist's Handbook and Buyer's Guide to be distributed to 5,000,000 customers to tell them what they have told GM about their taste in automobiles...
Graham is a one-class outfit, its three body styles with slick highbrow radiator fronts and no running boards. Price: $965. For $130 extra, it may be had with custom appointments or supercharger equipment that steps the basic 90 h. p. up to 116. Optional is a steering-post gearshift...