Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duesenbergs with a combined value of about $55,000. Duesenberg, controlled by Cord Corp., is reported to be planning a new line but the exhibits last week were the famed custom models, some with exposed exhausts, all priced above $13,500. Reaching down below the $1,000 class were Auburns, not much changed from last year. But Auburn's trump was the new front-wheel drive Cord, the only completely new car at the Show...
More Freshmen will appear this week. Those who have yet to report are being asked to sign at Coach Harry Cowles' shop on Mt. Auburn Street...
Independents. Outside General Motors, Ford and Chrysler there are only ten U.S. automakers with any appreciable volume. In addition to Packard, they are Studebaker, Fierce-Arrow, Hudson, Nash, Hupp Auburn, Graham-Paige, Reo, Willys-Over-land...
...Auburn is bringing out a Diesel-engine car. Errett Lobban Cord's company has not had a good year since 1931 when its smart, swift models caught public fancy and 31,000 cars were sold. The company lost $3,600,000 in 1934 and $862,000 in the first six months of 1935. Nine-month 1935 sales of 4,324 cars were only about 10% ahead of the corresponding 1934 period...
Biggest news of its day was the world's first legal electrocution, at Auburn, N. Y. in 1890. To that event the New York World devoted whole pages, with details of the apparatus and its effect on the victim, who, through error, was literally fried alive...