Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, as one may well guess, Henry Ford had a dream with four wheels on it. In 1903 he began to manufacture it; he did not have any cash, so he cajoled some skeptical Detroiters into putting up $28,000 (the only moneys ever invested in the Ford Motor Co.). James Couzens, a Canadian by birth, who was working in a coal yard, scraped up $1,000, added his note for $1,500, bought 25 shares. Two automotive young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn...
...Government contends that the profits from the sale of the (41½%) minority interests in the Ford Motor Co. to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 for $100,000,000 were underestimated by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the Dodge descendants and a half dozen others to dig into their pockets and send back $34,277,253.48 to the U. S. Treasury. The defense attorneys argue that the Government ought to keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived...
...situation gives one explanation for the offer the Ford Co. made its dealers last week. For $60 the company will put any 1925 model Ford, no matter what its condition, in first class running order. It will reupholster and repaint such a car, rebuild the motor, and then guarantee the whole job for three months. Thus a dealer can offer high value for a broken down 1925 Ford on a trade-in or he can sell remade cars at bargain prices...
...Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...
Rediscount thus becomes facile, and just because of this facility the new company can enforce strict credit terms if it so pleases. Already it has set a gauge for the time-buying of motor cars. One-third of the retail price must be deposited at the time of purchase, the rest to be paid within twelve months. No money may be loaned on cars more than 2% years old, and only 1/3 of the retail price of the model when...