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Fedders-Quigan Corp., a Long Island company which makes air conditioners for RCA and Crosley, says that it has 20% of the market, that with ample materials it may prove to be the largest maker of single-room coolers this year. This claim is hotly disputed by York Corp.'s President Stewart E. Lauer. Since York not only makes its own but Philco's room-unit as well, York's Boss Lauer thinks he holds first place, claims 40% of the market. Chicago's Mitchell Manufacturing Co. insists that it is second. In the package-unit...
...Valley in the annual "Mobilgas Economy Run," a three-day test to determine the most economical and efficient U.S. autos on the road. Not entered in the 1,415-mile run, designed to put the cars through every weather test a motorist is likely to encounter: Buick, Cadillac, Crosley, Dodge, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Willys. Some Nash dealers entered cars, but withdrew them at the request of the company. It contends that light cars have no prospect of winning the grand prize under present rules of the contest. And one De Soto, which ran out of gas, was disqualified for refueling...
Economy Size. In Canton, Ohio, after Harris Barret, a four-foot midget, rammed his midget-sized Crosley into a bus, Municipal Judge Gordon Burris fined him $10, only half the usual fee for reckless driving...
...sales were off as much as 80% from last year and still showed few signs of recovering. To perk them up, Crosley, Motorola and Sentinel last week cut prices from $20 to $80 on their 1952 models, and even RCA and Admiral, which had held out against price cuts in the past, planned to go along. Other metal users found sales just as slow: with the deadline already past for filing CMP applications for fourth-quarter metals, the government had got requests from less than half of the eligible producers; the rest apparently still had enough to carry them through...
...when he was elected vice president of finance and revenue in 1949. LIEUT. GENERAL ALBERT C. WEDEMEYER, 54, retiring commander of the U.S. Sixth Army and a leading witness at the MacArthur hearings (TIME, June 25), was elected vice president of Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp. (Crosley Radio, Bendix Home Appliances and six other companies...