Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muller, is an engineer with the Edward G. Budd Manfacturing Co. (auto bodies), and one of the directors is Vice President Frederick W. Gardner of Gardner Motor Co., Inc. This personnel, coupled with the announcement that the car will be built in Cleveland and in St. Louis plants, resulted in the surmise that the "plants" are the old Cleveland-Chandler plant (recently bought by Hupp) in Cleveland and the Gardner plant in St. Louis, and that experimental Ruxtons are being built at the Budd Philadelphia works. The Budd company has been announced as official body builders for the (all metal...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...
...greater part of the academic year the administration of the School has been under the able direction of Acting Dean O. M. W. Sprague. This year marked the first time in the history of the School when the chief problems of physical plant and equipment were solved. The efforts of the administration were directed toward improving teaching methods, developing and expanding research and continuing the classification and cataloguing in the Library...
...recent additions: Viking, Marquette. Viking belongs to the Cadillac-La Salle group, employs the famed V-type eight cylinder motor, sells for fess than ($1,595) the La Salle, just as La Salle sells for less than the Cadillac. Marquette is a Buick offspring, made in the Buick plant, sold at $965 to $1,035-considerably less than the Buick figure. The first Vikings were brought out last month; the first Marquettes went on display June...
...thus far we have done nothing really new in aviation. The great thing that must be done, and along essentially new lines, is to get a new type of power plant which will produce more power with less weight...