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There were other reasons, too, why sales fell off in 1934. An Austin cost almost as much as a Ford or Chevrolet. Over long distances at high speeds it was uncomfortable. It was at a dangerous disadvantage in collisions. Austin was cut out to be a supplementary car, useful in cities or on big estates. Depression wiped out that market...
...their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered by Chevrolet Motor...
...gave the festival her energy and name. Socialites needed her spur to be interested. But the 10,000 amateurs required no prodding. The foreign-born elements have been as faithful to their music as to their native food. The industrial groups have developed swiftly in the past two years. Chevrolet has a glee club of 40, directed by David Redwood who works in the die room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General Motors has an orchestra and a chorus of 400, some of them foundrymen, some division managers, some electroplaters...
...Last week after again threatening a general automobile shutdown by a strike in Toledo's Chevrolet transmissions plant-a strike which forced the closing of 16 other General Motors plants-A. F. of L. again made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result...
Washington, April 30--Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady tonight left by airplane for Toledo to see if a settlement of the labor difficulties at the Chevrolet plants could be worked...