Word: oakland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beaten financially. That year he was forced out of his controlling interests in the General Motors Co. and the Chevrolet Motors Co. The former he had organized in 1908, three years after he had organized the Buick Motor Car Co. Between 1908 and 1909 he bought the Cadillac, Oakland, Oldsmobile and Northway motor companies; in 1915 got control of General Motors and also organized the Chevrolet Co. All these he lost at a swoop in 1920. But the very next year he rebounded by organizing Durant Motors. He has a large following in both the automobile and the financial field...
Ajax Auburn Buick Cadillac Case Chandler Chevrolet Chrysler Cleveland Davis Diana Dodge DuPont Elcar Essex Flint Franklin Gardner Gray Hudson Hupmobile Jewett Jordan Junior Eight Kissel Lexington Lincoln Locomobile McFarlan Marmon Moon Nash Oakland Oldsmobile Overland Packard Paige Peerless Pierce-Arrow Pontiac Reo Rickenbacker Roamer Star Stearns Studebaker Stutz Velie Wills-Ste. Claire Willys-Knight...
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Wholly new manufactures were present: the Diana, the Nash-built Ajax and a new six developed by General Motors in its Oakland organization. This new six, called the Pontiac, was priced between the Chevrolet and the Oakland to fulfill the General Motors policy of making a car "for every purse and purpose...
...only one Liggett's, but it is iterated 300 times in the U. S., 40 times in Canada, 700 times in England.* Recently the Liggett Co. began a campaign of extension on the Pacific Coast. In Los Angeles it bought four stores of the Kress Drug Co.; in Oakland five of the Bowman Co.; in Glendale another thriving shop. In Seattle it began to negotiate for the ten Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash) eight stores...