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...automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered also. Today he is rumored to be worth 40 million dollars; is considered the wealthiest of Massachusetts citizens. None of the Governor's fortune, however...
That manufacturers not allied with General Motors or with Ford are about to merge for protection. Gossip, totally unverified, connects Packard, Dodge, Chrysler, Mack trucks, Fierce-Arrow,, Hudson and Chandler-Cleveland as potential factors of some such coalition. The kernel of fact is that promoters are constantly putting propositions to manufacturers, ideas which usually dissolve to nothing...
Unlimited Class--H. Cornsweet, Brown, defeated Packard, Williams, referee's decision...
Lehigh University was founded 62 years ago by a man named Asa Packer. In 1884 it graduated a young man named James Ward Packard who took his mechanical engineering knowledge back to Warren, Ohio, his birthplace, and put it to work. Last week Lehigh University acknowledged the receipt, from James Ward Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard...
...successful that Mr. Packard was able to retire in 1916 from the presidency of the Packard Motor Car Co. He was succeeded by a man four years behind him at Lehigh (but not a graduate), Alvan Macauley...