Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate making. In the last year 50 industrial companies had decided to locate new factories in the Cleveland area. The $100,000,000 they were spending would spill out into about 25,000 jobs. The prize catch was a whopper: two General Motors plants (to produce the new light Chevrolet) that would cost upwards of $50,000,000, make jobs for a minimum of 10,500 men.*Cleveland was working on more factory prospects, with about 25,000 more jobs as the prizes...
Most interesting slant on the economic merry-go-round came from the Ofgant Chevrolet Company. Unable to share Truman's pessimism, Ofgant held that with the death of OPA, automobile production would rise and there was hope for increased sales soon...
...auto industry may go on a three-day week. Ford had already laid off more than 45,000 men. General Motors Corp., after scouting feverishly, found enough coal to keep open its big foundry at Saginaw, Mich, for another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only a few days off. And when they closed, hundreds of those...
Died. Arthur Chevrolet, 61, last of the three Swiss brothers who made auto history in design, production and on the speedways; by his own hand (hanging); in Slidell, La. In 1909 Arthur became Motor-magnate William C. Durant's private chauffeur. Later he and Brothers Louis and Gaston, in partnership with Durant, formed the Chevrolet Motor Co., sold out four years later, just missed becoming motormillionaires...
...only 2,500 Ibs. (smallest Ford weighs 3,011 Ibs.) with standard wheel base, wide seats, and "gasoline economy which will amaze the driving public." The 1947 Willys will be in production early next year, will sell for less than any of the present models of Plymouth, Ford, or Chevrolet...