Word: planted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
...Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made by the notorious old Skoda munitions plant, once the chief arsenal of Imperial Austria and still suspected of supplying arms to China. Czechoslovakia has bought the right to manufacture a lighter model of the internationally famed Hispano-Suiza Eight ($12,000). "Unless we raise our tariff against American automobiles," concluded M. Novak, "I fear that at least...
...Cadillac and La Salle March production totaled 4,009; the Olds Motor Works turned out 13,000 Oldsmobiles (44% increase over March, 1928); Buick reached a March figure of 15,206.* Production has also been started on a new General Motors car -the Viking. Made at the Oldsmobile Lansing plant, the Viking is an 8-cylinder car with a V-type motor...
...Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter of 1928. Fisher Bodies (General Motor property) is building a new million-dollar plant. Dodge (now a Chrysler division) shipped 1,892 cars and trucks...
...Buick, high among U. S. autos in dollar volume production, has announced a new Buick-built six (as yet unnamed) noncompetitive with Buick and selling in a lower price field. Designed by Buick engineers, the new car will be built in the Buick plant...