Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local investigator. Mrs. Smith would follow by train, also in custody. The plane flew to Brockville, flew back again without Dr. Smith when he refused to be separated from his wife. Eventually Dr. Smith & wife, with Louisiana officers, set off for Baton Rouge in Dr. Smith's auto. Dr. Smith declared himself in a hurry to get back to fight the charges against...
...world grew more & more war-busy, but Auto-Ordnance had no salesmen in Spain, in China, in other places of slaughter. Thompsons, manufactured by Colt Arms under contract from Auto-Ordnance, lay in boxes packed in cosmolene, waiting for uninvited buyers. But the demand for them began to grow. The U. S. mechanized cavalry now has 400 of them. Mechanized units in many another up-&-coming army bought them...
...months ago Colonel Thompson finally reached an agreement with the Ryan estate. For $529,000 the heirs of Thomas Fortune Ryan agreed to sell their Auto-Ordnance stock, write off $1,090,000 in notes for money advanced to the old company. Other stockholders (including the heirs of Commander Blish) agreed to trade their shares for stock in new Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...
...business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
...Auto Sales: Only 30% ahead of 1938's subnormal level, auto sales clearly justified no production revival to the not so high 1939 peak. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., long bullish, complained last week that the spring recovery had fizzled: G. M.'s May sales fell 3,559 from April, the industry sold about 10,000 units more than in April, but not so many as in March...