Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas...
...comics. He was firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters," until the final curtain, Wynn is, in evidence practically all the time...
Lincoln, long the $2,500-and-up crown jewel of Ford, is superseded this year by Lincoln-Zephyr, Lincoln Continental and Lincoln Custom. The foreign-looking, rakish Continental (introduced last year), has extra-large, square-cornered trunk and upright rear tire which violate streamliners' ideals but make a distinctive car. Prices ($1,477 to $2,864) include pushbutton door latches, automatic windows and V12 120-h.p. engines...
Packard values its traditional rectangular radiator, has kept it on the new cars but smoothed corners elsewhere. Sleekness is achieved by eliminating hood louvers. Available in the five series is true air conditioning with cooling unit and humidifier in the trunk. Two-tone color combinations are outside and inside. Prices: $907 to $5,550 (for LeBaron limousine). Besides making cars, Packard is busy building a new plant to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for U. S. and England. The engines will be worth nearly $190,000,000. (Packard's total 1939 automobile sales...
Yesterday was the big day of the year for the Yard janitors, who spent all their time answering questions and directing trunk maneuvers. In their opinion their new charges were "smart boys, every one of them," and "an intelligent bunch; they didn't cause a bit of trouble...