Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Separated. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 30, arty elder son of Motorman Chrysler, and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes Chrysler, by mutual consent, after a marriage of 18 months; in Manhattan...
...months later Dodge stockholders had assented to the deal and the contract was signed. Next morning Broker Dillon dropped in to see Motorman Chrysler at his office on Madison Avenue to find out when Chrysler would begin operating Dodge. "Hell, Clarence," replied Walter, "our boys moved in last night...
Firestone, which shoes the wheels of most top-flight U. S. racing cars, publishes its half-year report at the end of April. Last spring it had encouraging news for its stockholders in spite of the fact that one of its major customers, Motorman Henry Ford, is rapidly expanding his own tire production in the River Rouge plant. For fiscal 1938's first half (October-April) Firestone turned a net income of $2,429,738. This year's six-month...
...complete a $280,000 budget for the approaching season, faced a problem much like the Metropolitan's. In its 25 years, the Symphony raised $4,000,000 by passing the hat. Half the donations came from twelve old Detroit families, headed by such men as Senator James Couzens, Motorman Roy Dikeman Chapin, Banker Julius Haass, Milkman Jerome Remick-all dead today. A newer generation of motor manufacturers, which never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits on its hands. The Symphony's current drive for funds...
...unit, American Airlines) stocky, purposeful Sigmund Janas was assistant to American's President C. R. Smith. Earlier he had learned the tricks of financing as Deputy Superintendent of Banks in California, the tricks of airline operation as president's assistant for Western Air Express. Close friend of Motorman Errett Lobban Cord (American's chief stockholder) he had also learned how to combine the tricks of operation and banking, take over ah airline (as Cord had American) and make it tick...