Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like Henry Ford, Alexander Winton, R. C. Durant, and Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Chevrolet drove racing cars before he gave his name to an automobile company. A name is also the only connection that Louis Chevrolet has with the Chevrolet Motor Company. The name suggested speed, the company wanted it, so Chevrolet sold...
Louis Chevrolet is the oldest of three brothers, motor musketeers. Arthur was the second brother. A woman cured him of racing. Death cured the third brother, Gaston, in a collision on the Los Angeles speedway in 1920. On the Memorial Day before his death he won his greatest race-the Indianapolis Sweepstakes...
...when William Crapo Durant, stock market operator and motor manufacturer, sailed for Europe seven weeks ago, he said nothing striking. And yet he is one of the headiest bulls of the present market (which many sane economists believe is at a peak...
They talked about motor cars. Mr. Chrysler spoke of his four models-the four cylinder Chrysler "52" selling at $670 f. o. b. Detroit, and of his three sixes, the "62" in the $1,000 class, the "72" at $1.545 & up, the Imperial "80" at $3,000 and up. He mentioned the new six, to be called the "De Soto," to be made by a separate corporation; and to be sold for $900. He referred to Dodge Bros., which Mr. Dillon controls; to its "Standard Six" at $875, its "Victory Six" at $1,045 and its "Senior...
Then decision: Chrysler to take financial control of Dodge Bros, by a trading of stocks; Dodge Bros, and Chrysler to continue separately as motor vehicle makers; Walter Percy Chrysler to be chairman of the directors of the combination; Clarence Dillon to be chairman of the directors' finance committee; Edward G. WTilmer to be president. Mr. Wilmer, by training a lawyer, has been Dodge Bros, president since Clarence Dillon took control in 1925. Mr. Dillon made Mr. Wilmer a Dillon-Read partner. He is a superb executive, the sort of man Mr. Chrysler himself is, except that Mr. Chrysler...