Word: opel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buicks, longer and roomier, showed what .has been done since last May by the new manufacturing chief, I. J. Reuter, once with Opel. An automatic clutch and Startex (starter automatic with ignition switch) are standard equipment. Large doors opening flush with the running board add to the low appearance...
...report that G. M. cars accounted for 43.3% of registrations last year against 34.5% in 1930. While total registrations were plunking down 27.3%, G. M.'s volume decrease was but 8.8%. Also revealed was the fact that G. M. has bought out the 20% minority interest in Adam Opel, A. G. of Germany, now owns all that company's stock. A price of $8,700,000 was indicated for the 20%. The entire Opel investment is now carried at $34,000,000 on G. M.'s books...
...Fritz von Opel worked with powder, but has lately been inactive...
...merger will constitute the third important liaison of General Motors with a strong native industry in the intensive period of its participation in international trade during the last eleven years." The other two liaisons were the acquisition of Vauxhall Motors. Ltd., in 1925 and the merger with S Adam Opel...
...sort in the older, equally unchaste Jim Jam Jems. When, in 1928, Jim Jam Jems' Editor Sam Clark attacked him in his magazine, Captain Billy bought him out. There after came Modern Mechanics and Inventions (later sued by Popular Mechanics on its title, and by Fritz von Opel, the German rocketeer, for an article concerning him) ; Startling Detective Adventures (sued by a North Dakota sheriff for an article which he claimed he did not write), Hollywood and two months ago, Mystic Magazine, an idea conceived in Paris by Mrs. Fawcett. Mystic Magazine capitalizes the current faddish interest in astrology...