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Died. Wilhelm von Opel, 76, Germany's gruff, free-heiling mass-producer of autos; in Wiesbaden, Germany. He inherited his father's bicycle factory in the '90s, turned out his first all-German car in 1902, produced about a million with the help of Ford's assembly-line techniques, which he admittedly "stole with my eyes" during a visit to Detroit...
There were other stirrings in Bizonia. In Ruesselsheim, General Motors' Opel factory shipped 24 Opel Olympia two-door sedans to Belgium, Opel's first automobile exports since war's end. Young Henry Ford II visited his Cologne plant and promised to expand it into the biggest automobile factory in Europe...
Leverett--If, Seager; rf, Craig; c, MacVicar; lg, Thron; rg, Opel. Dunster--If, Okimura; rf, Baker; c, Brunsman; lg, Fleming; rg, Roscuberg...
...lineups: Leverett-p, Herz; 1b, Oburchay; cf, White; c, Sweeney; 3b, Grant; ss, Opel; 2b, Lenherr; lf, Hollingshead; rf, Stoutz. Lowell-lf, Gardner; 3b, Collins; c, Bowditch; p, Johnson; ss, Colby; rf, Silver; cf, Broad; 1b, Zwack; 2b, Egelston...
Russians noted that Economist Hoover's colleagues included: Rufus J. Wysor, ex-president of Republic Steel; Elis S. Hoglund, prewar head of G.M.'s Opel works in Germany, and their boss, A.M.G.'s Brigadier General William H. Draper Jr., former partner of Dillon, Read & Co. Sensitive Soviet noses smelled a capitalist plot to rebuild Germany as a bastion against Communist Russia...