Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locally later. Most eager of all are the thousands who vie weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least two hefty radio sponsors (Chrysler, Metropolitan Life), but NBC's Town Meeting of the Air is not for sale...
...group of shirtsleeved men stayed in a smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...
Sirs: In the issue of TIME dated August 28, under the section concerning Business and Finance, I find as a part of your highly incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share...
...wonder Reader Logan was confused; so was TIME, which herewith apologizes to the Chrysler Corp. for inadvertently rouging its already healthy complexion. The declared dividend of $4 reported by TIME covered a nine-month, not a semiannual, period. If Chrysler's fourth quarter dividend is the same as its last two quarterly declarations, its stock (at current levels) will have yielded about 1% for the year...
...Kennedy had already shuttered and barred the palatial Embassy house at No. 14 Prince's Gate (donated to the U. S. in 1921 by J. P. Morgan) and moved to a country house away from the terror of bombs. Thence each morning he drove into London in a Chrysler, waved swiftly through traffic by bobbies who spotted the large "CD" disk (Corps Diplomatique) on the radiator-grille. Every day he had to see at least one member of Britain's War Cabinet. Meanwhile, there was the job of sending the nine Kennedy children* back...