Auto Industry Maintains Balance Between Output And Demand
The Detroit report shows auto factories produced about 2.345 million passenger cars in January through May and shipped roughly 12,500 more abroad, with a 405,000 vehicle carryover from 1950. Inventories total about 500,000, roughly a month’s retailer demand, reflecting cautious optimism amid material shortages and potential cuts. Hudson paused production for a couple of weeks to ease overhang.
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David Wilkie
WP Automotive
Detroit
Stort
Lance
Hudson
Company chiefs cite credit easing as key to boosting sales
Company heads argue production limits pose more a problem than sales. They believe sales could rise with moderate easing of credit restrictions, enabling stronger output and market activity.
Night Keeper Encounters Fraternity Pledges at Zoo
At Brookfield Zoo in Chicago a night keeper finds an automobile on zoo grounds and three fraternity pledges in toppers and frock coats approach him at 3 am. They ask how many bars are in the lion house. he says 600. After they depart, he counts 618 bars in the lion house.
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Chicago
Brookfield Zoo
Otto Holdik
Lion House
Holdik
Pop Endures While Pa and Paw Fade From Fathers Names
Hallmark Co reports on Father’s Day cards shows Dad, Daddy and Pop remain common while Pa Paw and Mamma Ma Maw fade from usage. The article notes Papa has disappeared from American speech over 30 years.
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Kansas City
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Paw
Pop
Father
Dad
Daddy
Hallmark Co
Farmers Adopt Dial Phones Boost Calls Fivefold
Washington reports that REA financed dial phones are used five times more than crank telephones. In Virginia about 200 farmers have the new systems, while old phones averaged under two calls daily. The dial phones now handle about 10 calls per day per user.
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Washington
Rural Electrification Administration
Virginia
Administration
Boy Bites Baby Not Vampire in TV Dispute
Los Angeles police searched for a vampire but found a 10 year old boy who bit a seven month old baby while enraged by interrupted TV viewing. Investigators note the infant sustained non serious wounds and a psychiatric exam is planned for the boy.
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Los Angeles
Dennis Eugene Hunter
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