Word: buicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, if nothing better turns up, always has his Buick agency at Trenton, Mo. to fall back...
...requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People crowded around to see if it was human or mechanical* Boy and Sea Scouts made models for the Fisher Body Guild. A cutaway Buick motor, electrically driven, revealed the working of pistons and valves. By every General Motors car was a shiny blower to demonstrate the actual workings of Fisher draft control. On every floor, in every corner, was testimony to the desperate drive for business which autodom will make this year...
Over $700 Auburn 8 $745 Hupmobile 6 $995 Buick 8 995 Nash 8 830 Chrysler 6 835 Oldsmobile 6 745 Chrysler 8 945 Oldsmobile 8 845 Graham 6 745 Reo 6 995 Graham 8 845 Studebaker 6 840 Hudson...
...Industry until it was said to have made him 100 times a millionaire. Earl Hansen McCarty, 46, succeeded him as president. Mr. Nash began as a carriage-trimmer in the old Flint Road Cart Co. From 1912 through 1916 he presided over General Motors, having rehabilitated the old Buick Motor Car Co. He then formed his own company. Its home is in Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co. Scotch-descended Mr. Nash's specialty is cost-paring and Nash can now break even if it sells i.ooo cars a month. In its early years it jumped...
...transactions are shrouded in corporate history. Once Mr. Kettering was annoyed by the length of time it took to paint and dry a car. "We might be able to do it in 34 days," he was told. "An hour would be more like it," he snapped back. *Buick's innovation of last year, "Wizard Control," was engineered by the Bragg-Kliesrath division of Bendix Aviation Corp. This year's selling feature, ''No-Draft Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter...