Word: gm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field where accessories often outsell salesmen, this phenomenal boom did not escape the alert eye of General Motors Corp. Last week GM bought Crosley Radio's automobile radio division at Kokomo, Ind., announced that, at additional cost, it would install radios as initial equipment in new cars. Hitherto General Motors cars, like many another make, have been built to take receiving sets should the customer buy one as an extra. No newcomer to radio, General Motors some years ago made home sets in a short-lived venture which was liquidated...
General Motors Corp. makes more than 40% of all U. S. automobiles, has models in every price class. Its monthly sales figures, models of completeness, are a standard index of the U. S. motor trend. Last week GM reported that in March its dealers retailed 181,782 passenger cars and trucks, an all-time record for that month and the highest total for any month in GM history except...
Retail sales for the first quarter of 1936 also set a record for that period. Even more significant, GM's March sales were 89% above those in February. Some of this gain was probably the result of bad weather, which made prospective buyers put off their purchase until the first hint of spring. Yet the February-March gain in 1935 was only...
Most motor statistics for 1936 have been thrown out of focus with 1935 by the fact that the automotive year is almost six months gone, the season having started last November instead of in January. But the distortion in GM's sales tended toward understatement rather than overstatement, since GM prospects have already had two months more in which to buy their GM cars than they had last year at this time...
...binder. When struck, safety glass shatters like ordinary glass, but the binder holds the pieces in place, prevents flying fragments. Libbey-Owens-Ford sells so much safety glass for motor cars that it is almost an automobile accessory company. In 1931, it paid General Motors $10,000,000 for GM's glassmaking subsidiary, since then has supplied practically all General Motors glass. It also supplies about 50% of the glass in Ford cars, but part of this business will be lost when Henry Ford's own glass factory is completed sometime this year...