Business: Business Notes, May 3, 1926

Buick. Optimistic of the future, the Buick Motor Co. is stretching to a monthly program of 30,000 cars; already it reached 25,000 in March, and for the first ten days of April produced 9,639. Dealer stocks are kept low.

Talking Machines. When the cinema, café dancings, low-rate orchestra entertainments and radio decoyed people from the musical whirrings of their household phonographs, the Vector Talking Machine officials developed a new machine, the orthophonic; advertised so well that within two weeks of first announcement orders of $20,000,000 came in. People liked the machine, liked the...

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