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...year later he was promoted to manager. But it was in the automobile business that Chrysler first proved his ability as an executive as well as an operating man. In 1912 Charles W. Nash, who had succeeded Durant as head of General Motors, put him in charge of Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which...
...depending upon the age of the car. The official guide price of a Ford cabriolet, 1930 model, in the New York area is $210. The mandatory deduction (15%) fixes the maximum allowance to a customer at $178.50. Other Guide prices in District No. 2 (five passenger sedans, 1930 models): Buick 30-57, $425; Chevrolet, $195; Chrysler 70, $300; Franklin, $700; Hudson Greater 8, $265; La Salle $575; Nash 480, $375; Packard 7-26, $600; Studebaker...
...Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion. Mrs. Roosevelt rides her horse Dot in Rock Creek Park for fun. To get herself places she has at her command airplanes, trains and a blue Buick convertible coupe. Since March 4 she has traveled incessantly up & down the nation, across it and back, visiting all manner of places and institutions. She has traversed its skies and its surface so thoroughly that, in epitomizing her ubiquity for the ages, the New Yorker pictured two coalminers at work...
...last year. Dodge dealers reported sales for the week up 684.4% from a year ago, De Soto dealers 238%. Packard sales for September were at the highest monthly level in more than two years. Hupp reported a production gain for the fifth consecutive month. General Motors reported that Buick's September sales were 1,400 units above the previous year, Pontiac's 5,000, Chevrolet's 38,000. Combining the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sales organizations had not only bolstered dealers but increased those cars' percentage of the business in their price classes as follows: Buick...
...which President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like...