Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller of Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern county as the Anti-Saloon League. The industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians to tie the whole State together...
...their curiosity. He was, they understood, a financier whose unusual hobby is to acquire control of clean, smart, pedigreed industries. At present Mr. Aldred and his associates are the bankers for the firms which produce razors stamped "Gillette," silverware with the venerable Manhattan hall mark "Gorham," and U.S.-made motor cars bearing the nameplate "Rolls-Royce." Clearly this guest, this Signor John E. Aldred, was worthy of Italian observation. Especially so, because today the Manhattan financial house of J. E. Aldred is handling issues of dollar bonds totalling some $30,000,000, on the basis of which extensive expansion...
When large purchases of the common stock of Harry F. Sinclair's Consolidated Oil Corp. were made in Manhattan, last week, by an undetected buyer this person was rumored to be Motor Man Ford. Before the Majestic sailed, however, Mr. Ford declared unequivocally, "I do not plan to purchase any new industries or purchase any more motor car companies in the near future. My hands are pretty full...
...individual is less, and the corporation is more, has been shown by the comparative smallness of the estates of many founders of famed businesses. Thus James W. Packard's total estate was last week estimated at $7,000,000, whereas recent net annual profits of the Packard Motor Car Co. have been some...
...Hudson Motor Car Co., which this year remodeled its Essex as a "Super-Six," reported last week that the innovation increased sales of both Essex and Hudson cars. During the first three months just ended, the company manufactured 91,500 cars, a new high record. During the same three months of 1927 it produced but 74,000. Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin and President R. B. Jackson count on continuing into April the present production of 1,550 Hudsons & Essexes each...