Word: citroen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine bottle. He discharged his matchmaker, packed the house for his next fight by giving free tickets wholesale to Citroen mechanics. Thus began the Golden Age of French boxing...
Died. Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, French motorcar tycoon; of cancer; in Paris...
Societe Anonyme André Citroën was heavy on the Paris Bourse one day last week. In a fortnight the stock had tobogganed from 500 francs per share to 260. Andre Citroen, the bald, dapper little "Ford of France," was in swift financial waters. From one excited broker to another sped reports of a general creditors' meeting at the Bank of France. Finally the Agence Economique et Financiére, the Dow, Jones & Co. of Paris, rumbled authoritatively...
...learned that this great manufacturing concern, which does honor to French industry, has obtained all the financial backing necessary for operating. At no time has it ceased to be a good commercial proposition. With this financial aid Citroen will undergo reorganization, placing it in charge of more rational direction with the support and control of qualified experts...
...London Show last week is only a great and suave improvement on Henry Ford's ancient "planetary transmission" of immortal Model T. Last week the 8-h. p. British Ford was not pre-selective, had a gear lever of conventional U. S. type. From France came Andre Citroen's latest, a car with floating power"-by permission of Walter P. Chrysler who has leased the French rights of his moteur flottant to "The Ford of France...