Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been President of the Studebaker Corp., South Bend, Ind. In-September and October, 1924, he went to Europe, visited automobile plants, asked questions of manufacturers and engineers, carefully inspected every car and body in the shows of London and Paris. Favorably impressed, President Erskine invited to Paris every Studebaker dealer and representative in Europe and some from Asia, gave a banquet, rose from his seat, fired at his agents a series of questions prepared by himself, received their answers in written form, took the answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers...
Whether a proper analysis or not, the 1926 situation gives one explanation for the offer the Ford Co. made its dealers last week. For $60 the company will put any 1925 model Ford, no matter what its condition, in first class running order. It will reupholster and repaint such a car, rebuild the motor, and then guarantee the whole job for three months. Thus a dealer can offer high value for a broken down 1925 Ford on a trade-in or he can sell remade cars at bargain prices...
...buys an automobile, or a baby carriage, on the installment plan. He gives his note (mortgage), bearing good interest, to the retail dealer. The dealer sells the customer's note to a credit finance organization for less than its full value, that is, at a discount. This organization in turn may want ready money for fresh purchases of mortgages. If such concern has been investigated, approved and licensed by the American Rediscount Corp., it will be able to get the cash readily. This is just what the Federal Reserve banks do for ordinary commercial paper. But the American Rediscount...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, Packard Motor Car dealer in Boston, Governor of Massachusetts: "Last week I purchased in Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...
From a half crown sack of books in the hands of a London lurk dealer to a place of honor" in the Bunvan collection at the Widernor Library is the journey destined to be taken by a forty-four page first edition of John Bunyan's "A book for Boys and Girls...