Word: dort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time Buick went to William Crapo Durant, then head of Durant-Dort Carriage Co. Now he had found someone who thought of financing in terms of good round figures. Under Durant direction, Buick stock salesmen went from door to door, sold stock to farmers, schoolteachers, clerks, widows, to any who would buy. And for once, at least, hardly any promise could have been made too glowing for the future performance, hardly any prospectus could have been phrased in too superlative terms. Able, persuasive, Durant raised for Buick more than $1,000,000. Now (1906) there was a good time...
...deficits of 13 orchestras?due chiefly to increased salaries?amounted last year to about $1,250,000. A casual observer outside Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, recently reported that Philharmonic players came to rehearsals in their own cars which included: Studebaker, Maxwell, Oakland, Chevrolet, Nash, Reo, Dort, Hudson, Essex, Packard. Plans to cut these deficits by coöperative "big business" methods will soon be stated by Mr. Mackay and guests...