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...show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel through...
...weeks, in Detroit, and then through last week in Washington, lawyers have asked questions concerning cars and a man (TIME, Jan. 17, THE CABINET). What they drew out of the mouths of sworn witnesses was the saga of Henry Ford, motorcar maker, and his Ford Motor...
Beginning. In 1919 minority stockholders in the Ford Motor Co., including Senator James Couzens of Michigan, sold their shares to Henry Ford for about $12,500 a share. They had to prefer him to outsiders, if he wanted their securities, according to a company bylaw. He did want their stocks. But before they sold they asked Daniel C. Roper, then U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to evaluate their stocks for purpose of income tax. Commissioner Roper did them the favor; judged each share of Ford Motor Co. stock to be worth $9,489 in 1913, the year from which...
...original tax value be now revised? 2) If so, what was the original tax value of Ford Motor Co. stock...
...built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...