Word: phantoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AUTO FREIGHT CHARGES for destinations in the South and West will be cut by Ford Motor Co. to satisfy complaints by dealers. Though Ford will still charge "phantom freight," i.e., on the basis of mileage from Detroit no matter how near dealers are to local assembly plants, the company will cut the charges as much as $49 on a Ford and $58 on a Lincoln. However, part of the reduction will be counteracted by a $16 wholesale price increase on Fords...
Borley's haunts included a tall stranger in a top hat who paid bedside calls on unsuspecting parlor maids, an aged family retainer long since dead, a lurking prowler who went without a hat and without a head as well, a phantom coach that rolled wildly through the front yard behind a brace of phantom horses. Also in the ghostly cast: a wistfully mourning lady variously identified as 1) Arabella Waldegrave, daughter of a 17th century local lord, 2) an English nun whose weakness for a monk in a monastery, said to have occupied the rectory site...
What the dealers wanted was more sympathetic cooperation from automakers, plus federal legislation to ensure dealers a better profit by ending runaway price cutting, auto bootlegging and "phantom freight," a manufacturer's charge equal to the cost of shipping from Detroit, no matter where cars are shipped from. Dealers close to auto plants complain that bootleggers can pick up cars in Detroit without paying the charge, ship them around the country for less than the factory-set freight, thus gain an unfair advantage...
Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...
...drove with him. Then Jagade fumbled. Halas stopped in horror. His foot came back and he kicked an imaginary ball right out of the field in disgust. Nervous substitutes kept a careful eye on their coach. They can still remember when Halas tried one of those phantom boots and place-kicked a 240-lb. guard right off the bench...