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...slightly less than 1,000,000 cars and trucks exported by all nations, Britain accounted for 540,000, the U.S. for only 260,000. Biggest buyer of British cars: Australia (76,246). Biggest British gainers in the U.S. market: Austin, up 50% to 5,450; Rootes Motors (Hillman Minx, Sunbeam-Talbot...
...rush into the store was so great that customers tried to push through the "In" and "Out" side of a Macy's revolving door at the same time; the door fell flat. In the store, jammed tight with frantic bargain-hunters, Toastmasters were slashed from $23 to $14.72; Sunbeam Mixmasters were cut from $46.50 to $26.59, and hundreds of other items were cut from 6% to 40%. Down the street, Macy's big rival posted its famed slogan: "Nobody but nobody undersells Gimbels," matched Macy's cuts. Across the East River, in Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus...
...Daredevil Dutchman." He was one of the first to enlist. The British government was partly responsible. He had gone to England in 1916 to consult with Sunbeam Motors, Ltd., and had discovered, to his astonishment, that his name made him an object of suspicion. The British-who had read U.S. sport pages and had discovered that he was called the "Happy Heinie," the "Daredevil Dutchman," and the "Wild Teuton"-detained him on arrival, took his shoes apart looking for messages, and scrubbed his chest with lemon juice in the hope of developing secret writing. When he returned...
...also filed seven more suits on similar grounds against a group of New York City discount houses. It was their reductions which had given Macy's an excuse to cut its own prices and thus force manufacturers to enforce fair trade minimums or drop them. Sunbeam Corp. and Corning Glass Co. also filed suits against the discount houses. At week's end, Macy's and the discount houses went right on price cutting, prepared for the court showdown...
...Bernard Lamotte is an amiable, agitated man who speaks at feverish speed, waving his hands and shrugging his shoulders to fill the holes in his broken English. Meticulous in his sketching, Lamotte spent five days before Chartres Cathedral last summer waiting for a cloud or a sunbeam to produce the effect he wanted, the light on the cathedral that he remembered from boyhood...