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...Willys-Overland concern is the biggest industry in the state of Ohio, and dominates the city of Toledo, where it has a plant covering many acres, and employs thousands of workmen. The Company is now producing nearly 1,000 cars a day, and the demand is apparently increasing...
When the Willys Corporation went into a receivership, it owned 739,866 shares of the Willys-Overland Company-about a third of the voting issue of that concern. Two factions are bidding $3,000,000 for the stock, and the one that obtains it will control. One faction is headed by Thomas H. Tracy, and the other by Henry L. Thompson, Chairman of the Board of Directors. President John N. Willys, until recently neutral in the contest, has now swung over to the Tracy party...
Both Federal Judge Knox and the receiver, Col. Francis G. Caffey, are endeavoring to protect the 6,000 odd stockholders of the Willys-Overland Company, many of whom are small salary workers in Ohio...
...Panama, that a second canal connecting the two oceans was seriously discussed in a Cabinet meeting few days ago. With Panama traffic quadruped since 1914 and the fruit growers of the West turning more and more to the sea to avoid the prohibitive price required to pay the overland carriers, experts forecast that the locks of Gatun and Miraflores will be used to the limit of their capacities within the fifteen years necessary to complete a second passageway...
...Overland Monthly...