Word: durant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Crapo Durant and Samuel Insull dumbfounded their stockholders last week...
...Durant blandly blamed his stockholders for his Durant Motors Inc. losing $3,618,649. Said he: "During the past few years, many of our stockholders have manifested a noticeable spirit of criticism because of the failure of your corporation to progress to the point of giving them a return upon their investment and for other reasons. This feeling of unfriendliness upon the part of stockholders has exerted a hampering influence in obtaining better distributors and dealers for our products. It has slowed up the sale of our cars, it has furnished the basis for the disparaging statements of outsiders...
...expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water in a sea of competitors, must produce more often if not as well, to hold public interest...
...entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros.' new 6-cylinder model, the Victory Six. John North Willys cut prices on all Whippet models and priced one, a sport coupe, at $545, which is $5 less than the price of the corresponding Ford model. And William Crapo Durant made the prices of his 4-cylinder Star match those of the Ford...
...Durant 65 895. Oldsmobile...