Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...
...hard, cold and clear as so many sheets of glass; but these relatively quiet scenes, too, are fascinating. They were well photographed (by Norbert Brodine) entirely in actual surroundings-Manhattan's Tombs, Sing Sing, an orphanage, Manhattan's streets and tenements and dives, even a Chrysler Building elevator-with none of the overhead lights which bathe all possible reality out of most Hollywood movies...
...Agriculture Department took back a previous prediction that food prices might ease off toward the end of the year. Some basics were on the rise; during the week the average price of metal and metal products lifted 4%. Cement companies advanced prices. Diesel locomotives would cost 6% more. Chrysler Corp. added an average of $87 to the price of its passenger cars (thus leaving Ford and Studebaker as the only major car manufacturers who have held the price line since steel prices lifted...
...Chrysler. 5. Standard...
...shortage of steel caught up with the automakers last week. Some 50,000 autoworkers were laid off. Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth final assembly lines clanked to a stop; General Motors closed two body plants; and Briggs Manufacturing Co. shut six body plants. Most plants which still operated slashed production schedules...