Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alma Ek, Guggenheim Copper Co. official, was a passenger on the motor ship Santa Maria. Short of name, Globetrotter Ek is nevertheless long of stature (6 feet, 3 inches...
...build to a price and we do cater to the world. . . . They are discriminating and we try never to lose sight of that fact. We know that the single standard of high quality will produce better motor cars than were we to attempt to secure the business of the world by building to all the pocket books...
Ford Sued. The Packard Motor Car Co. and the Wire Wheel Corp. of America last week filed suit against the Ford Motor Co., charging that the demountable wire wheel used on the new Ford is an infringement of the Cowles patent which Packard and Wire Wheel control. Fourteen years ago, one Edward T. Cowles of Warren, Ohio, sold this patent to Packard for a reported...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The board of directors of the Studebaker Corp. were to meet at South Bend, Ind., to consider a merger with the Pierce-Arrow Motor...
Three groups, including 10,000 railroaders, met at Atlantic City for a searching probe into revenues, costs, competition. They listened to contradictory advices. How should the railroads view the competition of motor trucks and busses? With Alarm, declared M. B. Lambert, transportation salesmanager for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association...