Word: opels
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Said Geheimrat* Wilhelm von Opel, gruffly, last week...
...know how this report came into the public light. The capital stock of the new Opel company will amount to 60,000,000 marks and these will remain in the possession of my family...
...Berliners knew, of course, of what Geheimrat von Opel was grumbling. From the great Opel works at Russelheim (between Frankfort and Mayence) there pour into Germany more than 250 cheap automobiles daily. Opel builds the cheapest, most standardized of all German cars. And, as a result, Opel has cornered more than half the German market. Other producers (Daimler-Benz, "Nag," Hansa-Lloyd, Adler, Horsch, Magirus, "NSU," Gothaer Waggon, Bayrische Motoren) call Opel the "General Motors of Germany...
Inventor von Opel had placed a cat in his rocket car (TIME, June 4). He wished to test the resistance of a living organism to high speed. But the car never attained high speed. Instead it exploded. The cat was never found...
Hence the cat lovers' ire, the catting of Inventor von Opel, at a mass indignation meeting in Berlin of German Friends of Cats...