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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ford, General Motors and Chrysler today control 90% of the U. S. car market. Studebaker, Packard, Nash, Hudson and the few other remaining independents survive on 9% of the dwindling medium-price field. Since Studebaker emerged from 776 in 1935, Messrs. Hoffman and Vance, now president and chairman respectively, have been pondering this squeeze (on sales of 52,000 medium-priced cars in 1938 they lost $1,700,000). They decided the public would not buy any car smaller or less powerful than Ford, Chevrolet or Plymouth (vide the Austin and Willys). They knew they could not compete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Champion | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...sale in April, the Champion was last week displayed to Manhattan dealers. President Hoffman, once called the "greatest salesman on the Pacific Coast," hopes to sell 50,000 in 1939. To break even he will have to sell 25,000. He and Chairman Vance have bet four years work and $4,500,000 they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Champion | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Hurley is a Republican and Government support is the ace-in-the-hole that the oil companies need. So last month they looked around for someone with "White House connections," found him in onetime NRA Chairman Donald Richberg. Last week he was in Mexico City hard at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Visitor to Mexico | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...addition to the office of editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, Horn, of Long Beach, California, and Winthrop House, is also managing editor of the "Guardian." In his Freshman year he was a member of the Triangular Debating Team; and the following year, he was awarded the Detur Prize for attaining Group I. His field of concentration is Economics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Picks Eight From Junior Class In First Elections | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Over 80 are participating in the Committee's work which for the Spring term will consist completely in the making and remaking of records of their productions, Officers are Barry Brown '41, Chairman, and D. Wilson Webb '40. Executive Committeeman at Large...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Workshop Literary Committee Aims to Present Poetic Drama on Air | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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