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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But to K. T. Keller that is no more reason for taking life easier than it is for any other Detroit motormaker. "This game," he says, "isn't a puzzle that you can lay down and pick up again; it's like a bridge hand and you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Every fall the U. S.'s No. 2 industry* buds with optimism. This week it is in full flower. For motormakers 1938 was a hard year (4th worst in number of sales since record 1929) with profits down as much as 70%, total production little more than half of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Buick has added two new series to its four stand-by straight-eights, claims 70 new mechanical achievements. It is lower, bolder-curved. Down in price from $17 to $281, it sells for $895 to $2,199 (lowest price range in company's history). Standard on some models are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Good shot: swarming vigilantes marching on two levels (across a high bridge and down a long flight of stairs) that seems to come straight out of famed Bolshevik Director Sergei Eisenstein's Potemkin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

To get into Spain, Bessie and his fellow volunteers had to climb over the Pyrenees one windy, cold night with small paper parcels as their only baggage. At dawn they stood exhausted on a peak, their city overcoats whipping their legs, and looked south for 50 miles over peaceful country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How It Was | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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