Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hudson's specialties for 1935 are all-steel roofs and a power-vacuum gear-shifter called the "electric hand." Attached to the steering column directly under the wheel is an instrument connected with magnets on the transmission. A flip of the ringer selects the desired shift. Then, when the clutch is depressed, a mechanism on the transmission, actuated by the manifold vacuum, shifts the gears. If an optional automatic clutch is used, the shift occurs when the foot is raised from the accelerator. Thus in traffic the "electric hand" may be set at second speed before a shift...
Terraplanef Hudson's fast-selling lowest-priced line, also has an "electric hand" available on all models. Elimination of the gear lever makes all sedan models comfortable for six passengers...
Hupmobile began the year with a radically aerodynamic model and a brand new president, William J. McAneeny, onetime head of Hudson. Just before Hupp's Chairman Archie Moulton Andrews hired him, Mr. McAneeny gained Detroit's gratitude by securing waivers from the big depositors in defunct First National Bank, thus permitting a 100% payoff to all accounts of $300 or less. Most distinctive feature of the new Hupmobile is its headlights, which, while a part of the body, are carried in outline straight back into the cowl...
...Been Around (Universal). Rochelle Hudson is the society girl to whom Chester Morris gets engaged before she falls in love with G. P. Huntley, a nasal newcomer whose sallow face and English twang should make him successful as a cad. When Miss Hudson makes the discovery that Huntley has been after her money she marries Morris on the rebound, but makes the mistake of explaining this to him. He walks out. When he comes back, after the usual Continental revelry, Huntley has dropped in for a drink, and Morris is almost through the door again when Miss Hudson swallows something...
...attorney challenging the constitutional right of TV A to sell electric power (TIME, Nov. 12). On subsequent days the President received calls from bigwigs of the utility world: Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth ; Southern; Preston S. Arkwright, president of Georgia Power; Floyd L. Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson; Thomas N. McCarter, head of the Edison Electric Institute (utility trade association). No one told what passed at the meetings except the President. He whispered to the Press that he had made it clear that if too much money had been invested in utility companies, the stockholders should take...