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...into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn but Aviation Corp. (American Airways), Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. and New York Shipbuilding Corp...
...that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence from the markets, had begun to dabble and get burned. Cord stayed in England for two years. Then last summer he attracted the attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission because of his heavy trading in Checker Cab stock. Last April came the astonishing news that hard-bitten Mr. Cord had gone to a Chicago hospital "for a needed rest...
...great Sit-Down Mania, though dwindling, had not yet exhausted itself. In Michigan, strikes in Reo and Hudson plants were still going strong. At Aurora. Ill., a sit-downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...
...degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity for new bowling (Skee-ball), ray shooting and baseball games, games that actually play. Most impressive of these was Inventor Frank Train's robot checker player, a 7-ft., 650-lb. aluminum "Magic Brain'' which has been touring the country as a publicity stunt for Radio Corporation of America, and which will be sold commercially at $10,000 each around April 15. Second best advertised was a baseball game called "1937 World Series" made...
...wanted to check your number for the College 'Phone Book," said the checker. "O. K., said the chockee "just a second. It's or-or (telephone number)." That was invariably the answer...