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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Nash's chief is fat, cigar-smoking, trout-loving George Walter Mason, who headed the fast-stepping Kelvinator Corp. before it merged with Nash in 1937. He has his own ideas about prices. On Jan. 10, 1940 he blew the lid off the complacent electric-refrigerator industry by slashing "stripped" boxes $30 to $40 a unit to a record low level of $119.95. Pleased by results (Kelvinator sales up 125% to new record, industry up 35%), Mason is applying similar tactics to the auto industry this year...
...House tackle football teams pry the lid off their 1940 schedule this afternoon with Adams House favored to overcome a weakened Lowell eleven and Dudley due to trample over an out-manned Eliot squad. Both games will be played on the gridirons just north of the Soldiers Field tennis courts and will start at 3:30 o'clock...
...touch opener this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, Eliot House meets Adams, prying the lid off a season that will run until November 15, followed by a climax game in which the first place winners travel to New Haven to meet the Yale champions. Other touch games this week include Dudley vs. Winthrop tomorrow, Lowell vs. Dunster on Wednesday and Leverett vs. Kirkland on Thursday...
With Government Candidate Avila Camacho and Independent Juan Andreu Almazan both claiming they had won the July 7 Presidential election, both preparing to take office, both promising a full-dress Congress to support them, the lid last week suddenly popped off Mexican politics...
When Montana first sent Burton Kendall Wheeler to the U. S. Senate (in 1922), the U. S. was trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...