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Died. Dr. John Grier Hibben, 72, president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after...
Industry too has joined in the Fair's activitism. It knows the visitor can see its products in the stores of his home town; here it shows him how they are made. In General Motors' $1,000,000 assembly plant a Fairgoer may order his Chevrolet in the morning, see it put together during the day, drive off in it at evening. He may watch Firestone turn crude rubber and chemicals into finished automobile tires, one every ten minutes. Phoenix Hosiery will show women how silk stockings are woven. Quaker Oats Co. will steam, roll, pack 100 cases...
Henry Ford stepped up his output from 2,000 to 2,500 cars a day. Chevrolet sales lumped from 10,000 to 14,000 to 17,000 cars in three successive ten-day periods and were expected to top 50,000 when final April returns were compiled. Plymouth reported 6,000 men on its payroll, just twice as many as in March. And these increases took place on top of the fact that during January, February and March the automobile business had already sold as many cars as it did in the same three months of 1932. Automobiles require steel...
...other manufacturers were vigorously opposing it. Henry Ingraham Harriman appearing for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, James Augustan Emery for the National Association of Manufacturers, protested that the bill would work vicious harm, upset industry, prevent recovery. The automobile business sent a sheaf of opposing telegrams, wires from Chevrolet, Chrysler, Hudson, Hupp. Not wholly isolated was Mr. Swope, however. Many opponents qualified their opposition, indicating that if the strict six-hour, five-day-and-no-more provision were made more flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor of the bill. Two other notable industrialists...
Buick closed its manufacturing plants at Flint because of cessation of retail sales shortly after General Motors announced February sales of 42,000 cars against 51,000 in January and 47,000 in February a year ago. Last week, however, Chevrolet brought out on schedule its new "standard six," minus 3 inches of wheelbase, 5 horsepower, and various luxury gadgets including free-wheeling-selling for $50 to $75 less than Chevrolet's "master six." Three days after the public was invited to see the new car, Chevrolet like Buick shut down its Flint plant...