Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...
Naturally U.S. motor men are vexed by the motor quota system, just as are Czechoslovaks by the U.S. immigration quota. But the need of developing a Czechoslovak motor industry is considered vital, and therefore a protective quota operates against even the Allied countries which secured independence for Czechoslovakia after the War. However, the "demand" presented by Minister Einstein, last week, was courteous and purely formal. Negotiations have long been smoothly under way to raise the U.S. motor quota to an annual total of 30% of present Czechoslovak production...
...much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture manufacturers adopt aluminum (bought from Aluminum Co.) the company's executives will be happy. They do not want to fabricate goods-cooking utensils, motor casings, furniture, or anything else...
Studebaker-Pierce Arrow. Stockholders of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. met, last week, to approve plans for an alignment (not a merger) with Studebaker Corp., bringing together companies with total assets of $200,000,000, making the fourth largest manufacturing unit in the industry. Studebaker will invest $2,000,000 in a reorganized Pierce Arrow company, call upon its selling organization to increase Pierce Arrow production to 15,000 cars yearly...
Bankers scanned the list of directors, noted these names with particular interest: Robert Lehman (investment banking); Walter P. Chrysler (motor cars); William Wrigley Jr. (chewing gum) ; Thomas L. Chadbourne (law) ; Edward Phillip Farley (shipping); Clement M. Keys (airplanes); Charles F. Noyes (real estate); David A. Schulte (real estate, cigars...