Installment Buying Turns 40 in Auto Industry History
A 1961 milestone marks 40 years since the first cars were sold on installments beginning in 1911. The system expanded markets, cut costs, and spurred mass production, reshaping cities, recreation, and the wider economy with cars within reach of many families. It credits ongoing prosperity to this payment model and foresees continued progress.
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Incoma
American Finance Conference
Association of Independent Sales Credit Companies
U. S
United Probe
Automoile
A. Anton Friedrich
New York University
Isaac F. Marcasson
Studebaker Corporation
America
Korea
From Baltimore to Gary Moore a radio star born Morfit
Thomas Garrsion Morfit born in Baltimore changes name to Gary Moore after a listener contest in 1939. He became a continuity writer at a Baltimore station and filled in as a substitute on a comedy show, winning audience support and never returning to writing. Public demand also influenced his haircut when CBS aired Perry Como supervising a permanent style.
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Thomas Garrison Morfit
Baltimore
Gary Moore
Gary
Ion
CBS
Barher
Perry Como
Crossword Puzzle From Book 15 With Mixed Clues
A fragmented crossword list appears with many misspellings and garbled clues. Items range from fat cook and Peru to laughter to network and club to dry to coin Peru to ad vertisement and various misprinted numbers. The down clues include a shepherd and natural elevations.
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Peru
Rose Motif Bed Linen Pattern 8357 for LINEN SETS
Rose motif and embroidered wild rose sprays create a delicate bed linen set. Pattern 8357 includes hot iron transfer for three pillowcases and a full top sheet, color chart, crochet instructions, and material requirements with white and variegated pink threads.
Killit Mousetrap Ad Sparks Odd Household Scheme
A curious want ad promising a guaranteed kill leads a couple to order a device described as a simple wooden block with a lead pipe. They speculate it may be a clever invention, while friends test its practicality and dubious guarantee. The tale ends with delivery and a recipe-like instruction to strike behind the ears. Deep Lakes Lake Tanganyika East Central Attica note appears from stray text.
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Mary
Killit
Bill Stout
Ciga
Bill
Ehad
Tme
Civilization
Grassroots Iowa Farmer’s Frugality and Thrift Tale
Wright A Patterson recounts an Iowa farmer who started with nothing, worked as a farm hand, saved to buy 160 acres, and built wealth through frugality. He eventually owned 460 acres, supporting his mother and investing in a well-kept farm system, embodying opportunity through self-reliance amid national calls for thrift. The piece contrasts this ethos with dependence and warns that welfare and promised gains do not forge success.
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Iowa
America
Ours
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Mez Gerhard
Roger.c. Whitman
Tobacco By-Products & Chemical Corporation
Atchmend
Virginia
the Fiction Corner
John Bulling
Lake Tanganyika
Attica
By Wright A. Patterson
Weat Adams St
Chiesgate Nl
iPlease
Bedford Hills
New York
Ginger Rogers
Doan
Je Peter
Ches
Ben-Gay
Cova
Tek Lama
Prince Albert
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