Costs Put Packard In Red Change To Ultramatic Is Big Factor
Packard Motor Car Company reports a $736,682 loss in the first half of 1950 due to costs from the Ultramatic Drive and new model tooling. Net income for late 1949 was $4,798,831 on 15,000,000 common shares. The company also notes higher cash and securities, reduced inventories, and plans a dramatic new line of cars to debut late this month, aiming for broad public appeal.
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Packard Motor Car Company
Tho
Hugh J
Ferry
Nash Sales Jump in July Ten Day Period
Detroit July sales for Nash Motors rose sharply from 1949 with 784 percent higher volume in the second ten days of July. Dealers delivered 487 Rambler Ambassador Statesman and Rambler models, up from 4765 cars a year earlier, according to vice president in charge of Nash sales FR Doss.
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Detroit
Nash Motors
FR. .&. Doss
Nash
Doss
86 Percent Of Cars Are By Big Three
Detroit UP General Motors Ford and Chrysler lead the auto industry in sales and production. Independents like Studebaker Nash Hudson Kaiser Fraser Packard Willys Overland and Crosley compete for the remaining share. If Kaiser Fraser reaches 360000 cars yearly by 1957 it will challenge Studebaker again.
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Detroit
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Studebaker
Nash
Hudson
Kaiser-Fraser
Packard
Willys-Overland
Crosley
CIO
United Auto Workers
United States
Maxwell
Graham Paige
Pierce-Arrow
Stanley Steamer
Keiser-Fraser
Wesh
Bue
K-F
Baytown Car Dealer Listings in City Directory
Baytown car dealers listing various brands and addresses including Lincoln Mercury at 261 Bragg Cadaway Pankearn 510 West Texas, Buck Taorner Chevrolet 145 North Main, Willis Cobb Nash 407 West Texas, Fred Dittman Oldsmobile 518 West Texas, Thad Felton Ford 600 West Texas, Franta Motor Co Desoto Plymouth 160 West Pearce, Gulf Coast Motor Co Dodge Plymouth 420 West Texas, Hemphill Pontiac Cadillac 700 West Texas, Higginbotham Motor Co Chrysler Plymouth Market 2915, Harrington Hudson Co? ATDSON, J B Bolinaway Crater Studebaker 310 North Main, Dack Saunders Buick 280 Market.
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West Texas
Dial
Buck Taorner Chevrolet Co
Chevrolet
North Main
Willis Cobb Nash Co
Nash
Fred Dittman
Oldsmobile
Franta Motor Co
Desoto-Plymouth
West Pearce Dial
Gulf Coast Motor Co
Dodge-Plymouth
West Texas Dial
Dodge Truck
Hemphill Pontiac Co
Pontiac
Higginbotham Motor Co
Cheysler
Big Bend Dedication May Be Postponed
Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman recommended postponing the Big Bend National Park dedication in Texas from October 21 to next winter or spring. Chapman and Rep Kenneth Reagan said the delay is desirable as President Truman and cabinet members will remain in Washington for several months due to the war.
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Washington
U@E
Oscar
Chapman
Big Bend National Park
Tesas
Kenneth Regan
D. Tesas
Trumen
Cat Mek
Willys Reports Record Earnings and Backlog Rise
Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. reports record third quarter earnings of 1,140,593.95 with sales up 150 percent from Q2. Working capital increases by 1,528,568. Si to 25,794,39404, and unsatisfied orders from the U.S. armed services exceed 48,000,000. Cash and government securities rise to 16,645,78023 while inventories fall to 15,979,323.53 as of the quarter end.
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Toledo, Ohio
Armed Services
United States
Willys-Overland Motors, Incorporated Today
Mental hospital bed occupancy and WWII cost per person
About 600000 hospital beds in the United States, nearly half the total, are occupied by mental patients. If the WWII cost were shared among desonilation, each person would face a bill of 2840 dollars.
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United States
North Koreans Sow Vicious Propaganda
A sanitized study of North Korean radio propaganda from Pyongyang portrays Allied prisoners of war subjected to relentless, brutal messaging. It notes manipulated themes on land reform and anti-American sentiment, with crude insults targeting Americans and South Koreans, and cites Goebbels as a cautionary benchmark for propaganda effectiveness.
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Rean
United States
United Nations
Pyong- Yang
Joseph Goebbels
Weather Data Ties U S To Russia In Forecasts
Russia provides weather data under an international agreement. Air Force notes Korea relies on it. Despite Russian reports, U S weather planes patrol the Fellow Sea. Combined data help predict fronts from west to east and timing of flying conditions. In one recent case rain eased by afternoon, enabling three hours of good flying, half the usual time.
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W4sshington
Russia
Air Force
Korea
Killer Asks Transfer To Avoid Trouble
CHICAGO. An 11 year old murderer Sidney Johnson awaiting execution asked to be transferred to a death cell fearing trouble after sharpened butter knives were found in a mattress. He wrote to Jail Warden Chester Fordney claiming fellow prisoners blamed him for the discovery of an apparent escape plot and asked to move from the security ward to Death Row.
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Chicago
Sidney Johnson
David Keating
Chester L. Fordney
Bishop Quin Urges Prayers For Peace
Bishop Clinton S. Quin announced that round the clock prayers will be held in 95 Episcopal churches across the Texas diocese to seek an early end to the Korean War and lasting peace beginning Sunday. He urged Christians to act on their professed beliefs and apply them to the war effort.
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Houston
Clinton S. Quin
Episcopal Diocese of
Texas
Heaven
Courts Will Decide City Transit Franchise Fight
Wichita Falls sues to cancel the transit company franchise over alleged failure to make 4065 tax payments after city council approval. Judge Frank Tkard presides. case filed today as the dispute moves to court.
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Wichita Falls
Tran Ait Company
Frank’Tkard
Small Boy Drowns On Birthday Fishing Trip
Walter Hall GY Jr 2nd birthday wish turned tragic as his grandparents found him drowned in an artificial pool behind the Hall residence in League City. The child, son of Walter Hall Jr president of Citizens State Bank of Dickinson and state Democratic Executive Committee member, had gone out with a fishing pole before vanishing. Christian Dior fall styles are previewed with witty copy about women resembling well dressed guitars.
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SBP
Walter Hall GY
League City
Walter Hall
the Tot
Walter Hall, Jr
The
Citizens State Bank of Dickinson
State Democratic Executive Committee
Private detective offers reward for missing Mrs Wolf
A Houston private detective posted a $50 reward for information on Mrs Gerda Rosenstein Wolf age 27 wife of Dallas cotton man John L Wolf. She disappeared July 24 while en route to rejoin her husband in Dallas after a two and a half month European trip. Wolf has been retained in the case.
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Houston
Gerda Rosenstein Wolf
Dallas
R.D. McDonald
Institute
Opal
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