Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff. At 20 he left Yale to take a mechanic's job with Packard Motor Car Co. at 16? an hour. He wanted to be in a business "where everything moved." One of the fastest movers was Joe Frazer. He left Packard for General Motors, switched to Chevrolet, left to form the Pierce Arrow Finance Co., settled down for a long stay with Chrysler Corp. But Joe Frazer had always hankered to run his own auto company, build...
...lack of steel the famed Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit may grind to a stop within a few weeks. Elsewhere in the Detroit area the Chevrolet gear and axle plant, the Fisher Body plant No. 1 are already shut down...
...delivery with the bootlegger or his agent. Some tires are stolen. Others come from pre-Pearl Harbor stocks of crooked dealers who did not list them on OPA's inventory forms, hid them in cellars, attics or backwoods garages. Prices are outlandish: from $30 to $60 for a Chevrolet-sized tire (6.00 x 16) which once sold...
Exceptional correspondent is U.P.'s Frank Hewlett (former acting Manila bureau chief). Whereas the others hitchhike, he sports a Chevrolet sedan with a small Filipino chauffeur named Hoolio. Grinning Hoolio has been nicknamed the "Sage of Bataan...
...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...