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Such are some of the remarks transcribed on discs by Frederick C. Packard '16, assistant professor of English, who has recorded the voices of over 2500 Freshmen in the past three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phonograph Records of Freshmen Voice Tests Show Oddities and Sense of Humor of Yardlings | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

...South Bend plant Bendix makes brakes for Ford, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Packard, Hudson, Nash, Cord, Auburn; carburetors for Ford, Nash, General Motors, Hudson, Chrysler, Plymouth, Studebaker; other parts for many another U. S. automobile. Last week Bendix could supply none of these customers. Two U. S. Department of Labor conciliators met with Bendix and union representatives to thrash out the differences, interrupted their week-long conferences only to go to the Notre Dame-Northwestern football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strategic Sit-Down | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Saturday morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Guest Claims | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Steel, so in Motors is C. I. O. pressing its unionization drive. While Philip Murray, Secretary & Treasurer of United Mine Workers, was speaking last week for the union at motor plants near Detroit, the Chrysler, General Motors and Packard companies all gave wage boosts or bonuses to their workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Trouble to Be Shot | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit for mismanagement against the Colonel, who owns all the rest of Schick's 5,620 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dry-Shave War | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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