Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motor Cars. Robert M. Calfee of Cleveland, attorney for the Peerless Motor Car Corp. said: "The Peerless Company under the present proposal does not contemplate the merger of the three companies [Peerless Motor Car Corp., Jordan Motor Car Co. and Continental Motors Corp.], but plans for mutual benefits which would strengthen each in the automobile industry. We have tried to work out a plan which would be beneficial to all three companies." That indicated a grouping of interests. However President R. W. Judson of Continental Motors at once said: "We expect to maintain our position indefinitely as an independent manufacturer...
...many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid...
Advertising. More than 2,000 daily newspapers on five successive days printed full-page advertisements announcing the new car. It was the biggest, most expensive advertising campaign crowded into so few days since Francis Wayland Ayer pioneered in commercial advertising, more than 50 years ago. Local dealers "tied up" with the Ford national campaign. Their advertisements appeared opposite these of Ford, giving the effect of a "double-page spread." The Ford costs, advertising exports calculated, were between $1,000,000 and $1,666,000 for the week...
...great little car," was the ready response. "You know I was supposed to buy the first in Massachusetts. In fact, I get in one and had pictures snapped of me, but the deal never went through somehow, for I never got the car...
...Sold it." Miss Ford replied and joined in the laugh that followed. "But you see, I have a car and wouldn't want another car," she hastened to explain...