Business & Finance: Prosperous Motors

Despite direful predictions which were made a year and even six months ago, the current year will go down as the most prosperous in history for motor manufacturers. In only a very few cases will the dollar profits of every leading producer fail to be the largest on record.

Curiously enough, the whole motor industry is now operating on Henry Ford's classic idea—that many small profits amount to more than a few large profits. Practically all motor companies have slashed their prices sharply. Never before did a dollar buy so much in automobiles as...

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