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...from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland via Beaumont and Banning battling every inch against blistering, boisterous blasts from the desert and surrounding mountains. Even at 4,000 ft. the temperature was 94?...
...April 4), denied that a price war began last week. But no sooner had the new Ford prices been announced than Chevrolet made slashes of from $10 to $55. Pontiac followed with reductions of from $20 to $50. In the higher brackets, Hupmobile made $100 to $200 reductions. Willys-Overland, with its six-cylinder roadster $45 under the Ford V-eight, said it would enter no price war. Rockne, Graham-Paige, Continental-de Vaux all said no price changes were contemplated...
...Willys-Overland...
...Three. . . .Rumor that John North Willys will soon return to active management of Willys-Overland Co. were commented on last week by the Ambassador to Poland: "The management of the Willys-Overland Co. is in the hands of the president and directorate, elected by common stockholders. My present financial interest ... is the ownership of a large block of preferred stock, which becomes voting stock after four quarterly dividends have been omitted. On April 1 the third will have been omitted...
...some she has realized profits to support her four children. Last week more satisfaction & profits headed her way. A new car was ready to burst forth. Its name: The Rockne Six. Its maker: a subsidiary of Studebaker Corp. Its sales chief: George M. Graham, previously sales manager for Willys-Overland, assisted by Frank L. Wiethoff. Its production manager and engineer: R. A. Vail and R. C. Cole, who were in charge of the same departments in Dodge Bros, before it was absorbed by Chrysler...