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...Barit's action was certainly not the familiar automotive stunt of changing a few gadgets as an excuse for lowering a car's price. The Hudson 112 is a bona fide new car. Nonetheless motormen generally regarded it as primarily an attempt to snare a market which has balked at high prices. How successful it will be remains to be seen, but last week it had President Roosevelt's blessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bill & Mr. Barit | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fats' Waller, Lightfooted Leviathan of Swingin', Gives Unsolicited Jam Session | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there. Expecting to snare part of United's traffic, TWA began with two round-trips daily between San Francisco and New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mill a Mile | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Although the encounter was filled with sloppy play, the crowd estimated as the largest this season, was constantly on edge as the Mitchellmen made seemingly impossible catches in the field. In the third frame, Owen twice raced deep into right field to snare line-drives, destined for extra bases. Mal McTernen made two equally brilliant circus catches in the center garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Figures Show Harvard Weak at Bat; Strong Afield | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...part in the U. S. Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke of the Union Party, named for Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Last week he turned up in Cleveland to snare Townsend votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Merger of Malcontents | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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