Word: dealer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...functionaries who transmit the finished car to the buyer consist of distributors and factory branches selling wholesale and dealers selling retail. There are 45,000 U. S. dealers and distributors, 60,000 repair shops. Ford and Chevrolet each have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every...
...sample distribution system is that of Buick, which has 18,000 men engaged in making its cars, 22,000 in selling them. Buick has 3,138 retailing dealers and seven distributors, covering big territories in the West. Buick also has 29 zones with managers and staffs paid by Buick to assist and instruct dealers in every way possible. For dealers are private capitalists, not employes. The average Buick dealer is an 85-car-a-year man. Starting out as such, a prospective dealer would have to show Buick, before he could get a contract, that...
...first American Zither Congress was held in 1912 in Washington, Mo., home of the Franz Schwarzer Zither Co., largest U. S. zither makers. Young folk are apt to think the homely zither "corny." President Leonard Zapf, Philadelphia music dealer and teacher, taught his son Karl Tom to play, heard him acclaimed a genius at the 1926 Congress. But Karl Tom deserted the zither, took to music teaching...
...years ago in Canada, indebted for much of his knowledge of prints to two years' service in France, first as a subaltern and finally as a major, with the Canadian Infantry. Rossiter's way of relieving the monotony of war was to study catalogs from every dealer in Paris and London, buy cheap prints which could be taken up into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave him "a lovely sensation." Abstracted, ruddy and untidy, he now sits at a big desk beside...
...conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House went Walter P. Chrysler accompanied by his local dealer. As he departed, News Photographer Maurice Lanigan snapped his picture, took advantage of the opportunity to complain that his Chrysler car was giving trouble. Automan Chrysler turned to his dealer. Said he: "Fix this...