Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's automakers were the hardest hit. Last week, Chevrolet production dropped from 12,347 to 7,792. Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes bodies for Chrysler and Packard, laid off 7,000 workers, cut schedules in half. Result: Chrysler cut its daily production from 3,600 to 2,775 cars, is expected to lay off 18,000 workers. Ford production too began to slip...
...fine Chevrolet...
...decide to take action. Last week OPA agents swooped down on Automobile Row, after they had laid the ground by paying marked money to dealers for the over-the-ceiling sales. One salesman was arrested after accepting $2,434 in marked money from an OPA agent for a new Chevrolet (ceiling price: $1,102); another was booked for demanding a $1,409 bonus. OPA's total haul for the day: 77 dealers and salesmen, who will be tried on criminal charges this week...
...talked about a new car cheaper than any now on the market, announced that the Ford company had discontinued the division which had been working on the new auto (TIME, Feb. 4 et seq.). General Motors, which had recently set up a new car division in Chevrolet, announced that it too was shelving its plans for the present. It saw no way to get materials for new plants. In short, harassed automakers, up to their cowlicks in production troubles, were too discouraged to take on any more...
Husky Oliver Lafayette Parks, onetime crack Chevrolet salesman, got the flying bug in 1926. He took ten hours of flight instruction, started his own school the next year at St. Louis Municipal Airport with himself as the entire faculty. A few weeks later he cracked up, lost his left eye and ended his flying instructor's career...