Word: continentals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever the means, each and every itinerant President knew the end that great G.M. has in view. While the battle of Fords and Chevrolets begins again at home, Ford has flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered...
This is a war of cheap cars, Ford v. Chevrolet. There is a surprising dearth of such cars on the Continent. Citroen, leading continental mass-producer, cannot turn out a car that will undersell the Ford in France, though Fords cost 25,700 francs ($1,008), about double the American price. The cheapest Chevrolet model sells for 30,400 francs ($1,191). France's 45% ad valorem duty largely accounts for these prices. Even with this duty, it is estimated that General Motors' projected cheap car for the Opel Works could be sold in France at about...
His name? Captain Harry Dean. His whole life work? The attempt to establish an Ethiopian Empire, the ending of Inperialism in the Dark Continent.
Nazimova mastered English and a year later appeared in an Ibsen repertory that immediately won her a place among the stars. She played opposite Walter Hampden in his U. S. debut (The Comtesse Coquette) in 1907. Followed several years of triumph in the U. S. and on the Continent. Then...
Last week, in Manhattan, the most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of...