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After eating, Loewy descended ten floors to his spanking new 1950 Studebaker convertible waiting at the curb. That he had designed too-along with all the Studebakers since the war-and thereby helped set a new fashion in automobiles. Loewy's own car had a few special flamboyant frills: a plastic tailfin, a tiny gold grilled air scoop above the emblem on the hood, recessed door handles, porthole windows and other eyecatchers to start pedestrians' tongues awagging with-the name of Studebaker− and Showman Loewy...
...matched the 1929 level. Yet the average price was only slightly more than half as high. Investors had good reason to shy away from war babies and those that had never made money except in boom times. But, by prices alone, no one could tell last week which were war-and boom-babies, and which were likely to be consistent performers...
American Airlines' Board Chairman C. R. Smith pointed out that Slick himself had started the rate war-and thus had driven many another independent to the wall (Slick's biggest competitor, California Eastern Airways, Inc. was ready to seek a merger with Slick). Slick had cut his rates to 12¾? in August. The scheduled airlines, getting big new planes, were able for the first time to meet this cut by shifting their displaced DC-4s to air freight. (American alone was transferring six DC-4s.) The independents' best hope was that CAB would disallow...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...
...Stuff. As Señorita Kruger, Hilda got around with the right, big-time politicians, soon picked up Spanish. She also did a few films. Then came war-and with it, the undeserved Nazi tag again...