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...voice, nervously twirls a whistle attached to a black cord. He rarely blows the whistle but the cord wears out every ten days. His appearance is extraordinary. He has green eyes, a cleft chin and snow-white hair. He earns about $15,000 a year, drives a Chevrolet...
...passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost his General Motors shirt ($120,000,000) in 1920. The Durant car, with which he planned to recoup his fortunes in 1921, is no longer made. When Asbury Park...
...position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon of Jan. 30, 1936, and another man was similarly driving a Ford westward along the same section, from 17th to 18th, at 30 m.p.h...
...balance sheet filed with the Massachusetts commissioner of corporations & taxation last week, Henry Ford's profits for 1935 seemed to have been $3,565,000, a drop of nearly 50% from the year before. This was a sharp surprise to Ford rooters. Last year Ford not only outsold Chevrolet for the first time since 1931 but registered a 79% gain over 1934 in the number of cars produced. As a whole the automobile industry gained only 32%, yet profits as a whole were up about 125%. Ford's 1935 output of 1,193,000 units was only...
There ought to be a law against playing on the emotions of Chevrolet and Ford owners for exploitation...