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...Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter. The City Council and the Rotary Club adopted resolutions. At least five other organizations pleaded by telegraph and mail. Thus last week did Toledo get behind a move to push through a $2,000,000 loan from the RFC to Willys-Overland...
THERE have been few expeditions of discovery that have so captured the interest of a whole nation and of scientific men all over the world as has the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the first white men to travel overland from St. Lewis to Puget Sound. Many books have been written about that trip; the journals of the two leaders have been published and reprinted many times; and a few authors have attempted to set down a brief account of the life of the leader of the expedition. Of these Thomas Jefferson has written by far the best account...
...Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations. But Durant and Chrysler quarreled. In 1920 Willys- Overland which had just gone on the post-War rocks hired Chrysler to pull it off. Then Maxwell Motor came to him with another salvage job. Maxwell had only 50 active dealers, had 26,000 unsold cars piling up demurrage in freight yards all across the country...
...Willys-Overland Co. took over Moline Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
...force spent by its wild overland journey, the hurricane went whining away across Lake Champlain to disappear harmlessly in Canada. In its wake it left 52 dead, $15,000.000 damages...