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...official guide price of a Ford cabriolet, 1930 model, in the New York area is $210. The mandatory deduction (15%) fixes the maximum allowance to a customer at $178.50. Other Guide prices in District No. 2 (five passenger sedans, 1930 models): Buick 30-57, $425; Chevrolet, $195; Chrysler 70, $300; Franklin, $700; Hudson Greater 8, $265; La Salle $575; Nash 480, $375; Packard 7-26, $600; Studebaker...
Last week the following were news: Signius Wilhelm Poul (William) Knudsen, 54, head of General Motors' Chevrolet division, was made executive vice president in charge of all GM's manufacturing operations in the U. S. and Canada. A Dane from Copenhagen, he emigrated to the U. S. at 21, got a job in a shipyard, worked for Erie R. R., then shot up as an assembly man for Henry Ford. Quitting as manager of all Ford plants in 1921, he soon joined Chevrolet. A tall, slightly stooped man with a big walrus mustache, Motorman Knudsen is a genius...
...dealers 238%. Packard sales for September were at the highest monthly level in more than two years. Hupp reported a production gain for the fifth consecutive month. General Motors reported that Buick's September sales were 1,400 units above the previous year, Pontiac's 5,000, Chevrolet's 38,000. Combining the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sales organizations had not only bolstered dealers but increased those cars' percentage of the business in their price classes as follows: Buick, from 38% to 60%; Oldsmobile, 14.6% to 27.3% ; Pontiac...
...driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there in a two-story stucco house on a corner lot, with a private telephone number, a Chevrolet in the garage. In 1908 old Sam Gompers visited Springfield, spotted Lobbyist Lewis as a likely youth to serve the American Federation of Labor. After six years of chores for Gompers John Lewis attended his first A. F. of L. convention, mixed with the leaders, learned the tricks of Labor...
...starting the end of October when Ruth Etting's and Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante's time is up. Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman for Kraft-Phenix Cheese...