Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal by holding a smile longer than other competing actresses. She drives a Chrysler car, dresses in a room mounted on wheels, likes rice pudding, consults fortune tellers. Most of her pictures have been vapid dramas of high life, assigned to her because of her social background: Pleasure Mad, Broken Barriers, His Secretary, The Latest from Paris, Slave of Fashion...
There were many optimists, however, and not a few successes; Ransonx E. Olds, who alone has had two automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general...
...Authors. Theodore F. MacManus is the head of MacManus, Inc., an advertising agency which has handled the accounts of Cadillac, Chrysler, Dodge Brothers, Hupmobile, and has made the phrase "Body by Fisher" known by all those who like beautiful girls. He has known the great and the near-great of the industry almost from the start. He looks at and writes of them as impeccable titans...
...Chrysler Corp. (Four years old in June; third largest in autos. In June, E. F. Hutton and Waddill Catchings joined the directorate. Plymouth and De Soto cars account for 40% of corporation's sales. First half sales approximately $228,000,000.) Net income, first half...
This success resulted partly from the character of the directorate, partly from the executive ability of President Herbert P. Howell and his officers, partly from favorable banking conditions. The directorate includes such men as Clement M. Keys (Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles), Lewis J. Horowitz (Thompson-Starrett, skyscrapers), Richard F. Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss-Wright Corp. airplanes), Robert Lehman (Lehman Bros.), William Wrigley Jr. (gum), R. P. Stevens (Niagara-Hudson Power Corp., Morgan utility) and William H. Vanderbilt...