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...issue of TIME you published an article entitled "The Drive." In connection with this article you published a footnote which reads as follows: "One competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Like many another inventor, Otto Zachow had no head for finance. He and his brother-in-law, William Besserdich, unable to get their machine into production, interested a husky young lawyer named Walter Alfred Olen. Walt Olen set out to raise $250,000. In 1910 the present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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