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...million square feet will be used, one million dollars spent. Theme of the exhibition is "Work for Many Hands," to be symbolized by mammoth hands flanking the entrances, to be explained by exhibits showing how General Motors draws its raw materials from every State. Said G. M. President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of his exhibits last week: "This program was conceived . . . as an aggressive attack upon existing psychology-the prevailing attitude of mind of waiting for something to happen before anything is done...
Faraday of Frigidaire. In 1926 Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. attended the Refrigeration Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. He wandered from porcelain box to porcelain box, listening to the various degrees of humming, observing the efficiency of freezing power. One refrigerator caught his attention and he had a long talk with the man who stood beside it. The man was red-cheeked Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, Sweden's No. 2 tycoon, great maker of vacuum cleaners and automatic iceboxes. He was standing beside the new refrigerator he had begun to manufacture. Mr. Sloan noted that...
...During 1931 about 60,000 mi. of new road were surfaced at a cost of $2,250,000,000, brought the total U. S. mileage to over 760,000. Well aware of this expanding territory, and of the replacement figures beckoning the industry, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., General Motors president, had courage to prophesy guardedly: "We know we have the first lien on the purchaser's budget; that the motor car is the last thing that the individual gives up. . . . The new offerings this year unquestionably represent greater .value than ever before. . . . My own belief ... is that we will enjoy...
...Charles Franklin Kettering of General Motors Corp., was in Paris last week for the international motor show. But Andre Citroen, leading French motormaker, was in Manhattan. He attended a luncheon given for him by the directors of National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Toastmaster was G. M.'s Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; guests included young Errett Lobban Cord of spectacular Auburn Automobile Co.; William Crapo Durant of Durant Motors, Inc.; Charles Michael...
...also has a large interest in the Savarin chain of high-grade restaurants in Manhattan. The new Waldorf directors also include such celebrities as General William Wallace Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad; Edward Wentworth Beatty of Canadian Pacific; Robert Goelet, Manhattan real estate tycoon; Condé Nast, socialite-publisher; Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors...