Motors. Motorcar makers last week heard of 3 consolidations, completed or pending: 1) Hupp Motor Car Corp. (possibly controlled by William C. Durant) and Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corp. (possibly controlled by the railroading brothers Van Sweringen), forming a $130,000,000 business; 2) Chrysler Corp. and Commercial Credit Co. (Baltimore), to provide instalment sale systems for Chrysler cars; 3) Humber, Hillman and Commer (British) motor interests, as Humbers, Ltd. Object: competition with U. S. manufacturers. Capital: $8,750,000.
Communications. Following British example (TIME, July 16), Radio France, controlling air communications from France to England and 6 continental...
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