Word: alls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The...
Last Friday 18 directors of General Electric Co. marched solemnly into the green Directors' Room on the 48th floor of G.E.'s pink Manhattan skyscraper. They sat through the reading of the minutes. Then, white-haired, sparky G.E. President Gerard Swope rose to his full five feet four...
Biggest thing on either man's public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and...
On Sept. 21, 1938, a tropical hurricane out of its orbit swarmed through New England like a banshee on a binge. From Long Island Sound to the tip of Maine it cut a swath 300 miles long, 100 miles wide. With its blast it felled 2,250,000,000 board...