Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favor a black car, 19.3% gray, 19.2% blue...
...want car-radios...
...garage. Presently he became a mechanic in Detroit's early motor companies, got fired with monotonous regularity until he branched into sales. He did a turn as draftsman with Haynes Automobile Co., lost some money but learned how to be an executive in the short-lived Sun Motor Car Co., finally hitched his trailer to a star in 1918 by joining Hyatt Roller Bearing Co. then headed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.* When Hyatt was taken over by GM, Weaver was put to work on sales statistics and market analyses. In 1925 he won a Harvard Award for Market...
...employment had been cut one-third, total production of 2,704,992 units was little more than half 1937's. But even this figure was nearly twice as high as 1932's Depression I low. And by the season's end the glutted used-car market was back to normal and only 90,000 new cars remained unsold, an almost unprecedented cleanout of the nation's 45,000 showrooms...
...combination ran third, the Chrysler line (Plymouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler) second and General Motors (Chevrolet, Pontiac. Buick, Oldsmobile. LaSalle and Cadillac) far out in front. For 1939, Henry Ford has two major bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field is an oldtimer, the Overland, which reappears as big brother to the little Willys...