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...John J. Raskob, Chairman of the Finance Committee of General Motors Corp., sailed into Manhattan harbor on the Roma, last week; and out to greet him sailed his good friend Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York on the yacht Saelmo, owned by Shipbuilder William Henry Todd. Because of an extremely active southwest wind and choppy sea the Roma and Saelmo could not draw nigh to one another without danger. Therefore Friends Raskob and Smith were not reunited until some hours later in Manhattan...
...days before John Jacob Raskob, chairman of General Motors' finance committee, returned to Manhattan from a five weeks' vacation* abroad, the company declared its regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 and an extra of $2-$56,550,000 altogether...
...Raskob made predictions: "The normal output [of U. S. motor cars] I should judge to be about 4,500,000 cars per annum. Figuring the life of a car as about five years, replacements should bring the annual normal output to about 5,000,000 cars. This figure has not yet been reached. . . .† Last year General Motors' export business [193,830 cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business...
...John J. Raskob, vice-president of General Motors...
...John J. Raskob, vice president and chairman of the finance committee of General Motors Corp...