Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace, maintains a garage in which 2,000 motor vehicles can lie in pawn, chiefly during the winter months when their thrifty owners see no sense in gadding about. Because everything pawned in France is automatically insured at lowest rates, wealthy Parisians often pawn their plate and jewels when going to the seaside in summer, not because they need...
...prima donna of U. S. industries. No other industry moves with such pomp and circumstance of drama. Its annual show is always "good theatre," replete with all the tricks of the stage.* A few years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...
...subsidiary companies, with 350,000 stockholders, 125,000 employes. To the corporation and not to individual executives goes the credit of making one third of all the world's automobiles on its twenty-fifth birthday. A similar change has come over Ford. Henry Ford still rules Ford Motor Co. but he no longer is Ford Motor Co. He says "Yes" and "No," but Edsel Ford, Charles Sorensen, Peter Martin, William Cowling and others are an organization, and the organization makes Ford cars. In this year of Recovery, however, the prima donna of industries still has one impresario...
...Pittsburgh works as assistant manager. A year later he was promoted to manager. But it was in the automobile business that Chrysler first proved his ability as an executive as well as an operating man. In 1912 Charles W. Nash, who had succeeded Durant as head of General Motors, put him in charge of Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled...
...Even curtain calls are not unknown in the motor business. Last week Ford's private show in Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 18) took a curtain call and a week's encore. Ford press agents duplicated in all but formal phrase the theatrical claim: "SMASH HIT! 100 BEAUTIFUL MODELS...