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Iddan and the Eldorado Biarritz. All then and an Autronic eye ....
They knocked £300
off
my new car
AND THAT SHOWS HOW
TOUCH THINGS ARE
IN AMERICA TODAY
HEN brand-new Cadillacs are
A live per cent cut in per- sanal incume-tax for everybody is practically a certainly, and there will be a reduction of the 52 per cent tax on compan income to 30 per cent. The United States is becoming the country of the cut rate.
Only food and rents rengin prodigiously expensive.
I see signs of the slump as I
pleading. "Brother can you
being go about the city. The begger offered at 300 to £400 below list price, is back on the streets, not then something is seriously wrong with the American economy.
spare a time," but saying "Gim-
me a quarter" which is 25 cents-two and a half times the
I bought a sports Cadillac the other week, a model value of a dime. called the Eldorado Biarritz,
and the salesman gave meme hit, actually you can get
'Business'
THE police themselves are doing good deal of collecting, The city finances are in a poor state, and trafic policemen and patrolmen
ny instances
a huge` allowance - on my practically everything at cut battered Buick
Skylark, rates. which has done 67,000
"I can get it for you whole- miles, and threw in several male," to the. revived slogane extrus-autronic eye, which Big firm, such as General Elec dip the headlights auto ric, have scrapped the "fair are being sent out not so much trade" price-fixing and told matically; tinted windshield their agents to sell their pro- to prevent glare, puncture- proof tyres, extra rugs, and rubber mats.
He said: "I won't be able to get more than peanuts for your old car, and I'm cutting) my sules commission to the one, but it's the only way to sell."
Changed
A YEAR apo I would have had to pay the full list price for a new car, and for a Cadillac slip a premium or bonus to the sales- man, and put down money for extras didn't want.
In 12 short months the picture has changed completely, and although the official statistics put consumer prices at an all
VOTH
ducts for what the traffic will bear. General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford, the big three, all know that the purchase Agures Ingless and set in Detroit today are mean-
as to maintain the tow but to
ralse revenue. There are park-
ing meters all over the elty 10 cents for an hour's parking
and $10 to $15 fine for. violation.
That prices are It's obvious that the authorf- being slashed all along the limo. ties are anxious that the shop
a
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
to give so many tickets every day, and I do it. Everyone brenks
the speed law all the time, I know. We have to get the revenue."
hand American car in Arst-cluss condition."
But now we have changed their minds, and there are platis to build small, British-style and European-style cura and have them on the market by 1000. For some years General Motors have been turning out the small sports Corvette, and Ford has been manufacturing the sports Thunderbird, but each well over £1,000,
costs
Because of my job, which en- talls very long journeys, often three recompanied by two or people, plus & lot of baggage and equipment, I prefer the big A few days later i appeared car every time, I
imov this couri. The place was will etuse some annoyance, junmed. The judge
big handed particularly as I like the down some very stiff Ones as American convertible, which Ï much as £20k some instances consider excellent value
and those who couldn't pay money. were taken off to the cells. I Bay several men in handcuffs.
Later the clerk of the court sak: "It's just not worth while having a car in New York City, unless its a midget"
Certainly the traite tangle in Manhattani is far worse then in London.
Three
Pointer
for
ROUND
UP
GENEVA
RITAIN is claiming the lost
BRIT
world under the North, Saa. It is a world of submerged valleys and hilla known as the Continental Shelf, on area where sunlight penetrates to all but it deepest points,
As some men plan to go into outer space others are prepar- ing to prospect for mineral wealth on the shelves leading to the deep sea floor.
Great arcas of this self around the const of Britain were onco dry land.
the
Of all the parts of the sea continental shelves aro perhaps most directly important io man. Senweeds are gathered from their submerged plains tọ make scores of substances used tra foods, drugs, und olher articles.
And, as petroleum reserves left on land areas became de- pleted, geologists are looking more and more to the possibl- ilty that oft may be found under these "lands" bordering the sea.
Britain
is claiming sovet eignty over this lost world outside the prên of territorial'. sea to depth of 600 feet.
Her claim is that of sola owners of this unknown land for the purpose of exploring and exploiting its maritime re-
sources,
But the British government say the sea above the shell and outside the three-mile territorial mit should be free to all.
This is only one of the prob- lems that more than 700 poll- ticians, maritime lawyers, hip- owners and others from 75 .countries will try to solve during the next nine weeks at a law-of-the-sea meeting m Geneva's Palace of Nations,
It will be the first attempt to do so since the maritimo na- Wons falled 38 years
aga. 10 agree at the Hague to draft new laws relating to the sea.
Fishing activities, pirney, slave trading, and flags of con- venience are among the matters to be dealt with.
The biggest fight of all will be over the question of the limit of territorial waicra. Britain wants to keep this down to three miles, but most_coun- their trics, want to extend limits to 12 miles or more.
THE last time I wrote about a
car-it was my Buick Sky-NEW
+
lark-I received 873 letters, many of them critical and some of them abusive. People said they did not want power steering. power brakes, electrically oper- A boom in the baby car growing. There
Isnted windows and seats, auto- ure over 20 majic gear-change, streaming. Detroit is now, the bleakest per commercial traveller shall makes of small ears from across electrically operated top, seating exceed their hour and have to the Atinatle. Today's New York capacity for six, Most of all city in the nation, with
pay a ne. Speed cops are dis- Times na two whole pages they didn't want alic. employment 250,000 or over 15 tributing summonses or tickets advertising the little automobile. per cent of the work force. for motorists driving at only a
As I happen to live and work few miles above the set speed. The State of Michigan has A year ago magistrates agreed these
hundred thousand of in Americu, I do. small CAFE will. bo more than 400,000 unemployed. tha1,5 m.p.h. leeway wis
If I've written too much about Governor Mennen Williams says: missible.
per sold in the United States this motor-cars this week, you will
year. This is a small percent understand that Detroit "We are suffering .J major
1210 6,000,000 economic disaster."
But today if you just nudge States-made
United bound up inextricably with the cars cold mest American depression. But when OVET the speed limit you years, but it is a beginning. In the country as a whole pay a heavy fine and have your
the motor-car industry coughs, the, unemployment figure is put driving licence endorsed. I was Bath Henty Ford 11, and the whole country has pneu- ut more than 5,000,000, bu! given a ticket on the West Side Harlow Curtice, the boss of monla actually, if you consider part- Highway last week. I sold to General Motors, have been Remember Will Rogers, the time workers, is close to the cop, who looked rather against the American-made small cracker-barrel philosopher, said: 5,000,000 out of work.
ludicrous in his baby-blue shock cur. They said: "For the sort "America is the only country-in That is not a recession. It is helmet: "IS the fair?" The of money the Europeans want history that has Kone to
the a depression.
policeman said: "I'm in business our people can buy a second- poorhouse in an automobile."
TÓRY
and Cut the SUBSIDIES
ngo
of
**Thanks to your talk about-reducing his subsidies be
e've got to produce four litters a year instead of two.""
YORK
A NEW drug which gives rellef to heart attack vic= tims by destroying blood clote within minutes, is in use in an American hospital
The drug, an unnamed mould, has been given to 25 patients 1.who suffered heart attacks or strokes. It had dramatic effect. It hunted out the blood clots which had caused their collapse, .
and eliminated them,
It brought the patients perco and calm and ended their pain. The drug did it work In minutes.
These announcements by, the American Heart Association made headling news through- cut America.
The
Massachusetta
BITLJI
hospital, where the drug's dia- coverer Dr Mario Stefanini-- works, was swamped with calls aciding when, tho drug would be avaliable generally.
Callers were told the drug was in the shortest supply, and still in its infant stage."
A
The American Heart sociation said of the drug: “Iť Is innocuous and can be used on the sickest of patients, Its discovery ranks as one of the major heart developments-t is dramatic and quick. It it is uset early elough, Д great portion of the long-term damage associated with heart. attacks avoided."
GENEVA
MALL quantities of uranium have been found in the valley of the Dix in the Swiss Canton of Valais. Geologists say these discoveries may bo more important than those in Canada and Even richer pure uranium.
to
The Swiss Federal goverti ment has asked prospectors-not to part rush as "It might handicap the official government prospectors now working in the region," --
NEPAL
BEAGLES and not panidis. an previous reported-will Lie used to help an Amerias expedition to track down the the abominable snowman In Ilimalayas.
The Nepal Government han permitted the expedition to use dogs only in flushing their. querry. They must dennítély Tot be used for attacking" and destroying the precious m
man.
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