Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chevrolet (first in 1938 sales of light trucks): 85 h.p. at prices from $572 (half-ton pickup) to $955.45 (ton and a half stake truck with cab over engine). Feature: for $106.60 extra a two-speed axle for heavy duty...
...radio priest, but doing something about him might leave them with a schism on their hands. But what the Church will not do, the U. S. radio industry has attempted. The new National Association of Broadcasters code, if enforced by the 51 stations constituting Father Coughlin's pickup chain, would effectively bar him from the air as a lone-ranging controversialist. One station (WIRE of Indianapolis) has already barred Father Coughlin, but the showdown on all 51 may not come for some months. And before then there may be a new choosing-up of sides. Said the liberal, anti...
...Bill. Comment: He had no indication yet that its removal of "irritants" to business would result in a business pickup...
...announce at regular intervals that business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
...weaned. Milk cost too much for a Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed to TIME...