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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were tales that it will again attempt to buy Radio Corp.'s communication business. Auburn leaped from $101 through $210 and bulls said they heard that General Motors had agreed to use Auburn's free-wheeling patents. Once again the names of Mike Meehan and William Crapo Durant were heard where speculators gathered...
...Motormakers last week had another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like...
Sharp selling brought Richfield Oil common stock to a new low of $2¼ last week. Brokers recalled its happier days when a pool, said to have been the first operated by William Crapo Durant's son R. ("Cliff"), sent it up to 54⅛ in 1928. Receiver McDuffie stopped reports that he would resign from Pacific Western, said eventually Richfield's creditors will be paid in full...
Last week Norman de Vaux, whose travels have run up almost 150,000 mi. this year, was in Grand Rapids, Mich, completing perhaps his most epochal trip. Lately there have been rumors that he and Motormaker Durant have been getting along none too well. These they both denied last week. Nevertheless, Mr. de Vaux announced that he has bought Durant Motor Co. of California, will refinance it as de Vaux-Hall Motor Corp.. will manufacture a new six-cylinder car, the de Vaux. A big dealer organization in the West will be at his command, and the de Vaux...
...strictly Western car is the Kleiber, made by Kleiber Motor Co., San Francisco. But the greater part of Kleiber output is trucks. Fageol Motors Co. of Oakland specializes in trucks. *Other cars supplied by Continental Motors, biggest U. S. manufacturer of gasoline engines, include Peerless, Durant, Jordan...