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...MOON MOTOR...
...Motor Profits. The year's first quarter just ended showed motorcar makers in excellent condition. Where profits available for dividends showed no increase over the corresponding quarter of 1924, the explanation lay for the most part with the internal adjustments of the companies concerned. The Wall Street Journal last week made up a comparative table showing profits for dividends, and per common share earnings the past three years...
Alexander I, youthful sovereign of the five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...
Seven years ago General Motors made an exceptionally profitable investment by buying 1,441,920 (60%) of Fisher Body Corp.'s shares for $32,151,825. This has already earned $23,130,800 in dividends and $25,217,000 in Fisher Body equity. Not only such profits but also the desire to have completely in its train a manufacturer the merits of whose products have gained almost unprecedented fame, have made the motor makers covetous of the remaining 40% of Fisher stock. But the chief minority holders refused all propositions until last week, when they were reported as about...