Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riding forth in a shiny automobile on Independence Day went Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. It was in his own home town of Evanston, Ill. It was a parade. Beside Mr. Dawes in the front motor sat Evanston's Mayor Charles H. Bartlett. Each was going to make a patriotic speech. There was a holiday atmosphere in the air. The parade was following them. There would be a crowd at the gathering place in an Evanston park. The dignitaries paid small attention to passing motors full of citizens with golf clubs, bathing suits, pop bottles, eyeshades, shirt sleeves...
...park, the parade behind the Vice-Presidential motor proved to be incredibly small. All told the audience that assembled numbered scarcely 200. The Evanstonians had, apparently, slipped off golfing, bathing, picknicking, rubbernecking that day, or were all sleeping late. The Vice President was vexed, and Mayor Bartlett, too. They scowled at the paltry assemblage, left the speakers' stand without a syllable, drove home...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. of Buffalo, with assets of $24,000,000, has been losing money. The Studebaker Corp. of South Bend, with assets of $135,000,000, has been making tidy profits. Last week, the board of directors of Fierce-Arrow approved the plans of Studebaker for a merger of the two firms; President Myron E. Forbes of Fierce-Arrow called for a meeting of the stockholders on July 25, writing them that it would be for their own good to consent to the plans. No matter how good the product, a large organization...
Profits. Hupp Motor Car Corp. declared an extra dividend and announced that its net profits for the first six months of 1928 would reach a new record of $4,000,000. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (air-cooled motors) resumed dividends on common stock for the first time since...
Employment. Latest figures on number of employes are 208,228 (total) for General Motors Corp., 115,837 for the Ford Motor Co. (Detroit only...