Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pontiac, Mich., 24-year-old Jerold E. Oaks obtained a marriage license, paid for it with a silver dollar-first money he ever earned. Said he: "It was my pay for a day's work on a golf course when I was only ten. I prized it so much that I kept it until I could find the most that a dollar could...
Michigan and other states investigating the Legion found its odor distinctly unpleasant. Outraged Pontiac. Mich, citizens, hearing that many of their city officials were connected with Legion activities, began an inquiry of their own. The appearance of Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea's name on a Legion membership blank caused a fine furor in Detroit. To Washington went frantic wires from the Midwest begging the G-Men to step in. Introduced in the U. S. House and Senate was a joint resolution demanding a Congressional investigation...
...Born in Pontiac, Ill., 58 years ago, Metalman Marsh began fiddling with chemistry in a woodshed. Quitting the University of Illinois after an argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace...
General Motors last week reported nine-month earnings of $114,482,000 against $92,445,000 for the 1934 period. Nine-month sales for the G. M. group totaled 763,406 cars. Brightest members of the General Motors family are Oldsmobile and Pontiac, both selling at about twice their 1934 rate. Neither Buick nor Cadillac has shown much sales increase thus far in 1935 but, in addition to a lower-priced Buick, General Motors is also bringing out a 1936 Cadillac at $1,645-a $700 decrease from the lowest price in the 1935 line...
Even so, the watchdog's Pontiac creeps in the shadows on the Wigglesworth side of the avenue. Blind to all else, his eye follows the quintet's every move...