Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, one of the marching motormakers suddenly became conspicuous. He was 36-year-old President Errett Lobban Cord of Auburn Automobile Co. and Cord Corp. Abruptly he burst from the slow-moving ranks, raced down the road with unprecedented speed, shouted great tidings of Auburn prosperity...
Even before President Cord's sprint became noticeable, Auburn stock on the New York Stock Exchange had begun to move. Bears short of it became uneasy when from a low of $88½ in December and $60⅜ in November it rose to $100, bounded on through $125, neared $150 in a mad display last week. In the commission houses there was talk of a "technical corner." Speculators pointed to the fact that Auburn has only 187,533 shares outstanding, that probably 90,000 are held by Cord Corp. If a strong bull pool cracked the whip, Auburn bears...
Datelined Auburn, Ind., but postmarked Chicago, where the company's publicity agents work, a happy fusillade of Auburn statements accompanied the reported Auburn boom. Vice President Roy H. Faulkner announced: "We are exerting every effort to meet this situation and are gearing our plants up as fast as is humanly possible with the hope that within 30 days we will be able to supply the demand. In this we are asking the public and our dealer organization to bear with...
...something of the sort is done. These biannual excitations inducing a kind of subsidiary froth are naturally abhorrent to the epicure of food and talk. Dishonoring the tolerant muse of wisdom with such mental debauchery can be endured in silence; but the gibberings of the Bereaved One of Mt. Auburn St. should not be allowed to interfere with digestion...
...arts with business in unholy wedlock depends on its ability to capture and hold the trust and sympathy of its patrons. The founders must not feel hurt if there is evinced a natural tendency to support those who have served long and well. The erudite old lady of Mount Auburn Street has fared exceedingly well since the demise of her spouse, whom rumor has it was the Hossier Schoolmaster. But these are lean days for all, and now that the Wolff is snarling at the Widow's door the faithfulness and gratitude of her many friends will...