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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pont. "General Motors does not want to step on your foot," said General Motors' Chairman Pierre S. duPont to Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Saga | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Whether these changes will attract or repel the paying customer, whose enthusiasm may have been slightly dampened by recent exposition and interment of "scandals," is subject for heated discussion in circles where subjects are scarce. They are sure, however, to stimulate sale of scorecards "giving names of players and c'reck batting order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Subject for Customers | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroads | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree has potent rights. This is important, for the Philadelphia & Reading controls the Central R. R. of New Jersey, the railroad that owns the finest port facilities in New York Harbor. The Western Maryland sale keeps Mr. Loree away from the South. The Wheeling & Lake Erie sale is not so important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroads | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...must hurry to record the natural state of a world already vanishing. Monuments and societies have been set up in his name by people who hope that it is not yet too late for conservation. If such people are really interested in Audubon, this book will have an enormous sale. The Audubon Societies now list 334,000 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Vasty Audition | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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