Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auburn was the gold mine which supplied young Errett Lobban Cord & friends with the fortune which, between speculative excitements, they have invested in airlines, shipbuilding, taxicabs. Entering the company when it was flat on its back in 1924, Motorman Cord lofted sales from $8,000,000 in 1925 to a peak of $37,000,000 in 1929. Early in the Depression he realized that there was still a market for a smart, fast model priced under $1,000 among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making...
Nevertheless Auburn is still a Cord property. Mr. Cord has been in Britain all summer but before he sailed he let his subordinates know that whatever was done to help Auburn would be all right with...
...Last week for the first time in nine years Auburn Automobile Co. omitted its quarterly dividend (50? per share). In 1929 Auburn stock hit $14. Last week it was down to $6, an alltime low. A speculative favorite during the early years of Depression, it gyrated between 84 and 295 in 1931, sold above 150 even in 1932. Out of Auburn stock President Errett Lobban Cord reaped the quick fortune which put him into aviation, shipbuilding. ¶Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston last week filed with the Federal Trade Commission for registration under the Securities...
...latest ex cathedra pronouncement from Colonel Apted, recently appointed chief of the Cambridge cavalry and hussars, appeared a few days ago on the Eliot House Bulletin board. It reads: "No parking will be allowed on Bolyston Street between Mt. Auburn Street and the River on Saturday, June 9th commencing at midnight tonight until 5 P. M. Saturday." Carefully inscribed below is a note to the effect that "this is a police regulation." And thus another fertile "parking" ground is denied the Eliot House playboys who seem inclined to seek them...
Disturbances late at night on Mount Auburn Street and in the Yard have not ceased in spite of the pleas of the captains of baseball, track, and crew, who complained that the renditions of "popular" songs by revelers are disturbing the sleep of the athletes who are in strict training for the most important events of the year...