Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dodges were, however, anxious to build a higher-class car, in opposition to Ford's continual and exclusive interest in the cheap vehicle. Finally, in 1914, they retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...huge cash price demanded. Bonds and stock of the Company will be offered for public subscription. Back in the after-War period, Dillon, Read & Co. refinanced the then tottering Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and from this fact some have thought that a merger with Dodge Brothers and possibly other motor and motor-equipment firms might be planned, of a size and importance to rival General Motors. The motor industry faces keen competition and undoubtedly calls for consolidations. But Dillon, Read & Co. denied the existence of any immediate plans for such consolidation...
...annual report of the Ford Motor Co. is almost too good to be true. It reveals a financial success beyond the wildest dreams of most corporation executives. Also, it is undoubtedly one of the most lop- sided and extraordinary company statements in the world...
...sold abroad. Thus, net profit per unit manufactured last year amounted to $47, as against $37 in ten months of the previous fiscal year, and $77 in the year ending Feb. 28, 1923. Thus even Henry Ford is feeling the diminishing profits generally complained of in the motor industry, although he has by no means reached the place where he has cause for complaint himself...
...head stands the Ford Motor Co., with $2,000,000, closely followed by the Victor Talking Machine Co., with $1,900,000. Other concerns whose annual payments for newspaper space total over the million mark...