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...Willys-Overland concern is the biggest industry in the state of Ohio, and dominates the city of Toledo, where it has a plant covering many acres, and employs thousands of workmen. The Company is now producing nearly 1,000 cars a day, and the demand is apparently increasing...
When the Willys Corporation went into a receivership, it owned 739,866 shares of the Willys-Overland Company-about a third of the voting issue of that concern. Two factions are bidding $3,000,000 for the stock, and the one that obtains it will control. One faction is headed by Thomas H. Tracy, and the other by Henry L. Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Directors. President John N. Willys, until recently neutral in the contest, has now swung over to the Tracy party...
...Tracy group stress the desirability of retaining for the Company the services of Mr. Willys, and its plan is endorsed by J. P. Cotton, counsel for the first preferred stock-holders of the bankrupt concern. The Thompson faction is assisted by the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan...
...Tilden and Alonso had met several times before this season, always to the former's advantage. This upset is regarded as one of the biggest in net history. A similar occurrence was in 1921, when Vincent Richards wrested the Rhode Island crown from Tilden, but present concern is greater than it then was because the winner is an invader. The current question on tennis porches is: " Will Tilden weaken in the Davis Cup matches...
...effects in a Viennese hotel. That action had an instant repercussion. The Austrians looked at one another with puckered brows. Said one: "He has come to take over the Styrian arms factory." Another: " He is going to produce 40,000 cars a year!' Shares in the Styrian concern were still soaring when it was discovered that the visitor was not the celebrated Detroiter, but only " a Mr. Ford from Chicago...