Word: soto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five days, it returned three sweeping indictments. First was against General Motors, G. M. A. C., General Motors Sales Corp., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., William S. Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty for conviction on the indictments of violating the Sherman Act is $5,000 or a year in jail, or both. But the case...
...functionaries who transmit the finished car to the buyer consist of distributors and factory branches selling wholesale and dealers selling retail. There are 45,000 U. S. dealers and distributors, 60,000 repair shops. Ford and Chevrolet each have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every...
...Soto this year comes in seven body types, two of them convertibles. A massive new frame, approximately 5 in. wider at dash line, 7 in. near the front wheels. reduces sway. Wheelbase has been lengthened from 116 to 119 in., radiator redesigned...
...easy task. John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property until the truce should produce a treaty...
Pecans were known to white men as early as 1541 when Spain's Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi River Valley, but it was not until after the Civil War that the nuts were used for much besides feeding hogs. First commercial sheller-dealer of any importance in the U. S. was a Swiss-born cake and candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten...