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...distribution is thus Business with a capital B and many a distributor and dealer has ridden his trade to fame & fortune. Distributor Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, having sold Buicks since the company began, now enjoys possession of the race horse Seabiscuit. Ford Dealer Samuel Breadon owns the St. Louis Cardinals. Packard Dealer Alvan Tufts Fuller became Governor of Massachusetts. Newest star to rise from the dealer ranks is Roy Samuel Evans, president of new American Bantam...
...expensive changes in plant and tooling were necessary to launch the new models. The lack of newcomers and new gadgets means that dealers can continue in their accustomed sales routines. And prices, already raised some 5% in August, are generally being raised some 5% more with the show. Having ridden a rough road in 1937 because of unprecedented Labor troubles, U. S. automobile men last week were noticeably free from the gloom of Wall Street...
Nevertheless the 23-year-old Mrs. Croker had faced photographers before. Once she had ridden bareback round the stage of the Hippodrome singing Indian love songs. Promptly she issued a mimeographed statement to the press: "It is the ambition of every Indian girl to win a Chief, and I have won the Chief...
Obvious purpose of the three bills is to evade the North America Act, Canada's Constitution, and make Premier Aberhart the Dictator of Alberta. There were enough debt ridden farmers and pious adherents of his prophetic Bible Institute in Alberta so that last week even enemies of "Bible Bill" were afraid that if forced to go to the polls he might win again...
...string of broncos, steers and wild cows, and to send "Gorilla" Mike Hastings scouring the West for more. Scout Hastings was visibly pleased last week with one of his most celebrated finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years no one has ridden him the prescribed ten seconds at the garden, Hell's Angel on opening night Bought about the downfall of one Fritz 1 ruan only a yard out of the chute...