Word: duesenbergs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Cord Corp., holding working control of Auburn and other Cord subsidiaries, made $306,691 while Auburn turned in another of its whopping losses, $1,522,843. Presumably one of new President Manning's major interests will be trying to sell more Cord, Duesenberg and Auburn automobiles. On the new board of directors formed to assist in this endeavor, one name made news this week: Republic Steel's Chairman Tom Mercer Girdler...
...races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord Corp. controlled not only these plus Auburn but Aviation Corp. (American Airways), Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp. and New York Shipbuilding Corp...
...Pasadena, G-men found odd evidence linking Hunt and Divine and indicating Hunt's status in the cult. This was a partly-completed "throne car," being built by a coach works. It was to cost from $25,000 to $40,000 and specifications called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back...
...shares from his father, who got control of the institution 33 years ago. At the bank, "100%" Nichols has a private office but spends most of his time at a desk in the lobby where he can watch people come and go. He travels to work in a Duesenberg, which he likes to drive fast, piling up in a ditch not long ago. Now 45, short, black-haired, profane, he talks out of the side of his mouth, looks not unlike the late Huey Pierce Long...
Today Brother Maurice (he is still Morris on corporation statements but he is generally Maurice on social occasions) lives on Sheridan Road. Every morning his Duesenberg calls for him and after stopping to pick up Brother Nathan, who lives nearby, they drive to their luxuriously paneled, air-cooled offices in the Goldblatt warehouse, on lower Lincoln Avenue. Thither from their slightly less pretentious bachelors' apartment come younger Brothers Louis and Joseph in a Lincoln. The Goldblatt family is scrupulously graded by seniority. Maurice and Nathan as "the partners" draw top salaries of $25,000 each, but Maurice, as senior...