Word: opel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automotive trades. Those who accept his proposition must pay their own way to Manhattan, plus $35 toward third-class fare on a German-American liner. Remainder of the fare (about $110) reportedly is paid by a German industrial cartel (Siemens & Halske; Volkswagen; Augsburg Machine Co.; Bosch; Daimler; Opel&Wanderwerke). Recruiter Buerk said he was acting for an unnamed superior in Chicago, reported similar activities there and in Cleveland, Detroit, Flint, where men skilled at machine trades (easily transformable into munitions workers) are abundantly available...
...volkswagen at a folksy price. Thus far 30 second-stage "experimental volkswagen" have been built in Germany after testing three first-stage experimental models. Not on view at the Berlin Show this week was a single "Folksy Automobile." Nearest thing to it: the 4-cylinder, 23 h. p. Opel offered by General Motors German subsidiary at 1,450 marks. By special permission of newlywed Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana her new 12-cylinder Maybach-Zeppelin convertible costing 38,000 marks ($15,200) was exhibited as "Most Costly Car In The Show...
...made-in-Germany cars produced last year were turned out by General Motors' subsidiary Opel, while famed Mercedes- Daimler-Benz accounted for only...
Balloons. Seven vast balloons surged at moorings in Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Field. Seven brace of aeronauts prepared to mount them for a tussle with the winds. A gust ripped the German entry of Fritz von Opel & Erich Deku. The other six rose fulsomely to strive for the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race trophy...
...reported its shipments of cars abroad 45% greater than in the first six months of 1932, its shipments for June 127% greater than in June a year ago. And the increase of the company's foreign sales affected its English-made Vauxhall and Bedford cars, its German-made Opel and Blitz cars as well as its U. S. products. A further hint, not yet statistically confirmed, that automobile buying is returning to normal is in the percentage of cars sold on instalments. In a normal year 60% to 65% of all new cars are sold on instalments. The National...