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Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of Sweden, and the Princess, his wife, will arrive in Boston Saturday morning and at 11 o'clock will motor to Cambridge for a two hour visit at the University. On his arrival he will be greeted at a reception to be given for him by President Lowell in the Faculty Room of University Hall. Following this gathering the royal visitor will pay shorts visits to the Stadium and the Freshman Halls and then will proceed to the Longfellow house on Brattle street where another reception will be held for him by the daughter...
Massachusetts requires an annual statement of the Ford Motor Co. That statement filed last April showed their assets to be $742,913,568, surplus $622,366,893 (TIME, April 19). For a fortnight statisticians wiggled estimates and surmises around these figures, guessed variously at Ford profits. The best guess was that he made from $45 to $55 a car. Ford and his staff kept silent...
...shutdown must not endure. It endangered the very existence of the Renault company. Already the shovel-nosed Renault, which glides silently through Paris traffic and howls down the routes nationales, was having stiff competition in the French markets. And U. S. motor cars were intruding in horrible numbers. The first quarter of 1926 the U. S. had exported 82,496 cars and trucks. Many had come to France?...
...What argument broke the strike of the Renault motor car workers...
Rain trickled and streamed down the banked brick turns of the great Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twenty-eight tiny speedcars, all "specials," set out to cover 500 miles at over a mile and a half a minute, to race for the international motor sweepstakes. Hearst-Editor Brisbane acted as chief referee-a post held in past years at Indianapolis by Henry Ford, Charles M. Schwab. . . . After something more than three and a half hours of breathtaking skids and recoveries, the judges decided to flag down the first car passing the 400-mile mark as the winner-declined to let the race...