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Word: weekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the lights in a South Bend, Ind. courtroom one night last week sat 17 respectable business men, numb with the same chill apprehension that narrows the eyes of every accused man when his trial jury announces it is ready with its verdict. Hulking in their midst was bluff, red-faced President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp., nearby the slim figure of G. M. C.'s millionaire Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In the defendants' sanctuary around them sat 15 others: President John J. Schumann Jr., of General Motors Acceptance Corp., three of his vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: The Missing Conspirators | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: The Missing Conspirators | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...railwaymen who are proud of their prestige breathed freely last week for the first time since the middle of October. They felt safer because their business was falling off-weekly carloadings were down from October's peak of 861,198 to 785,901. The slump spelled no disaster to U. S. business, for it was a seasonal drop (adjusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Cars Loadable | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...replace Swope, G.E. chose big, 53-year-old Charles E. Wilson, who went to work for G.E. at 12 (wage, $3 per week), never left it, worked as office boy, shipping clerk, factory accountant, production manager, sales manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Bloodless Abdication | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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