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...what made the 1935 Fords more interesting than other Fords was the fact that their maker announced last autumn with considerable fanfare that he planned to sell 1,000,000 of them-"or better"-in the third year of Roosevelt II. A dozen years ago when Chevrolet sales were 76,000 and Plymouth was not even an idea in Mr. Chrysler's head, Mr. Ford was turning out Model T's at the rate of 2,000,000 per year. But Chevrolet has outsold Ford in six of the past eight years, and the last million-car year...
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Said Mr. Ford in 1933: "I don' t know how many cars Chevrolet sold last year. I don't know how many they're selling this year. I don't know how many they may sell next year. And-I don't care...
Even before Thanksgiving the tills were ringing cheerily. Sears, Roebuck's November sales were 7% ahead of 1933. Montgomery Ward rang up the best November in five years. Many a chainstore reported gains of 10% or more. Chevrolet sold 50,000 cars to consumers last month? top figure for November since 1926 when an all-time high was established. Walgreen Co. (drugstore chain) reported the best November in history...
...York Herald Tribune last week set out to find this wonder-child of the last decade. He rediscovered her in a small suburban apartment. Last year she, aged 20, married an ice cream company employe named Harold S. Leach. He works nights and she works days, as cashier for Chevrolet at the Manhattan General Motors Building...